Josephine Ngumbi v. Eric Holder, Jr.

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UNPUBLISHED PER CURIAM OPINION filed. Originating case number: A201-263-405. Copies to all parties and the agency. [999601029] [14-1855]

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UNPUBLISHED
UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS
FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT

No. 14-1855

JOSEPHINE MBETE NGUMBI,
Petitioner,
v.
LORETTA E. LYNCH, Attorney General,
Respondent.

On Petition for Review of an Order of the Board of Immigration
Appeals.

Submitted:

June 8, 2015

Decided:

June 12, 2015

Before WILKINSON, NIEMEYER, and AGEE, Circuit Judges.

Petition denied by unpublished per curiam opinion.

Randall L. Johnson, JOHNSON & ASSOCIATES, P.C., Arlington,
Virginia, for Petitioner.
Benjamin C. Mizer, Principal Deputy
Assistant Attorney General, Ernesto H. Molina, Jr., Assistant
Director, Tracey N. McDonald, Office of Immigration Litigation,
UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE, Washington, D.C., for
Respondent.

Unpublished opinions are not binding precedent in this circuit.

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PER CURIAM:
Josephine

Mbete

Ngumbi,

a

native

and

citizen

of

Kenya,

petitions for review of an order of the Board of Immigration
Appeals

(“Board”)

dismissing

her

appeal

from

the

judge’s order denying her application for asylum. *

immigration
We deny the

petition for review.
We

review

factual

findings

for

substantial

evidence.

Hernandez-Avalos v. Lynch, 784 F.3d 944, 948 (4th Cir. 2015).
Such findings are conclusive “unless any reasonable adjudicator
would be compelled to conclude to the contrary.”

Id. (internal

quotation marks omitted).

We will uphold the Board’s decision

“unless

contrary

it

is

discretion.”
reviewed

to

law

and

an

Id. (internal quotation marks omitted).

the

documentary

manifestly

record,

evidence,

including
and

Ngumbi’s

conclude

that

testimony
substantial

abuse

of

We have
and

the

evidence

supports the finding that Ngumbi failed to establish a nexus
between her past harm or her fear of future harm on account of a
protected ground.

Accordingly, the record does not compel a

different result.

*

The immigration judge also denied Ngumbi’s applications
for withholding of removal and protection under the Convention
Against Torture. Ngumbi has abandoned review of those decisions
by failing to challenge those decisions in her brief. Karimi v.
Holder, 715 F.3d 561, 565 n.2 (4th Cir. 2013).

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We deny the petition for review.

We dispense with oral

argument because the facts and legal contentions are adequately
presented in the materials before this court and argument would
not aid the decisional process.
PETITION DENIED

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