FILED
NOT FOR PUBLICATION JUN 22 2011
MOLLY C. DWYER, CLERK
UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS U .S. C O U R T OF APPE ALS
FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT
OSEA RAGOGO RAKAUCOKA; SEINI No. 08-73288
NALEWAKALOU,
Agency Nos. A096-582-358
Petitioners, A096-582-360
v.
MEMORANDUM *
ERIC H. HOLDER, Jr., Attorney General,
Respondent.
On Petition for Review of an Order of the
Board of Immigration Appeals
Submitted June 15, 2011 **
Before: CANBY, O’SCANNLAIN, and FISHER, Circuit Judges.
Osea Ragogo Rakaucoka and Seini Nalewakalou, natives and citizens of Fiji,
petition for review of the Board of Immigration Appeals’ order dismissing their
appeal from an immigration judge’s decision denying their applications for
withholding of removal and relief under the Convention Against Torture (“CAT”).
*
This disposition is not appropriate for publication and is not precedent
except as provided by 9th Cir. R. 36-3.
**
The panel unanimously concludes this case is suitable for decision
without oral argument. See Fed. R. App. P. 34(a)(2).
Our jurisdiction is governed by 8 U.S.C. § 1252. We review for substantial
evidence the agency’s factual findings, and we review de novo the agency’s legal
determinations. Wakkary v. Holder, 558 F.3d 1049, 1056 (9th Cir. 2009). We
deny in part and dismiss in part the petition for review.
Petitioners conceded to the agency that they were ineligible for asylum due
to the one year time bar. In light of this concession, we do not reach petitioners’
arguments regarding the merits of their asylum claims. Accordingly, we deny the
petition as to their asylum claims.
Petitioners do not argue they suffered past persecution. Rather, they contend
they face future persecution from native Fijians because their daughter, who lives
in the United States, married an Indo-Fijian man. Substantial evidence supports
the agency’s determination that petitioners failed to establish a clear probability of
persecution in Fiji. See Nagoulko v. INS, 333 F.3d 1012, 1018 (9th Cir. 2003)
(possibility of future persecution too speculative). We do not consider petitioners’
contention regarding humanitarian grant of withholding of removal because they
did not present the claim to the agency. See Barron v. Ashcroft, 358 F.3d 674,
677-78 (9th Cir. 2004) (no jurisdiction over claims not presented in administrative
proceedings below). Accordingly, petitioners’ withholding of removal claims fail.
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Substantial evidence also supports the agency’s denial of petitioners’ CAT
claims because petitioners failed to show that it is more likely than not that they
will be tortured by or at the instigation of, or with the consent or acquiescence of
the government if returned to Fiji. See Sinha v. Holder, 564 F.3d 1015, 1025-26
(9th Cir. 2009) (petitioners did not claim they had been subjected to treatment
constituting torture in the past, and failed to present evidence that they would be
tortured in the future). We reject petitioners’ cursory arguments that the agency
used the wrong standard, or otherwise erred in its denial of CAT relief because
they are not supported by the record.
PETITION FOR REVIEW DENIED in part; DISMISSED in part.
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