U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, 2011

Siti Rahayuningsih v. Eric H. Holder Jr.

Siti Rahayuningsih v. Eric H. Holder Jr.
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · Decided June 7, 2011 · Pregerson, Thomas, Paez
437 F. App'x 534

Siti Rahayuningsih v. Eric H. Holder Jr.

Opinion

MEMORANDUM **

Siti Marhaenny Rahayuningsih and her family, natives and citizens of Indonesia, petition for review of the Board of Immigration Appeals’ order dismissing their appeal from an immigration judge’s decision denying their application for asylum. We have jurisdiction under 8 U.S.C. § 1252. We review for substantial evidence, Zetino v. Holder, 622 F.3d 1007, 1012 (9th Cir. 2010), and we deny the petition for review.

Substantial evidence supports the agency’s conclusion that petitioners failed to establish past persecution or an objectively reasonable fear of future persecution on account of a protected ground, because they did not demonstrate that the persons who attempted to force Rahayuningsih to return her adopted daughter to the daughter’s biological mother were motivated by more than a personal dispute. See id. at 1015-16 (9th Cir. 2010) (the Real ID Act requires a protected ground to be “one central reason” for the persecution). Accordingly, petitioners’ asylum claim fails.

PETITION FOR REVIEW DENIED.

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This disposition is not appropriate for publication and is not precedent except as provided by 9th Cir. R. 36-3.

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