UNPUBLISHED
UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS
FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT
No. 02-2136
YETERFWORK TESFA SIMRET,
Petitioner,
versus
JOHN ASHCROFT, Attorney General,
Respondent.
On Petition for Review of an Order of the Board of Immigration
Appeals. (A78-578-364)
Submitted: September 22, 2003 Decided: October 10, 2003
Before WIDENER and WILLIAMS, Circuit Judges, and HAMILTON, Senior
Circuit Judge.
Petition denied by unpublished per curiam opinion.
E. Dennis Muchnicki, Oscar A. Budde, Dublin, Ohio, for Petitioner.
Robert D. McCallum, Jr., Assistant Attorney General, Jeffrey J.
Bernstein, Carl H. McIntyre, Jr., Senior Litigation Counsel, Office
of Immigration Litigation, UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE,
Washington, D.C., for Respondent.
Unpublished opinions are not binding precedent in this circuit.
See Local Rule 36(c).
PER CURIAM:
Yeterfwork Tesfa Simret, a native and citizen of Ethiopia,
petitions for review of an order of the Board of Immigration
Appeals affirming an immigration judge’s ruling and denying relief
on her application for asylum and withholding of removal. We find
that substantial evidence supports the Board’s conclusion that
Simret failed to establish past persecution or a well-founded fear
of future persecution as necessary to qualify for relief from
deportation. See 8 U.S.C. § 1252(b)(4)(D) (2000); INS v. Elias-
Zacarias, 502 U.S. 478, 481 (1992); Huaman-Cornelio v. Board of
Immigration Appeals, 979 F.2d 995, 999 (4th Cir. 1992).
Accordingly, we deny the petition for review. We dispense
with oral argument because the facts and legal contentions are
adequately presented in the materials before the court and argument
would not aid the decisional process.
PETITION DENIED
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