FILED
NOT FOR PUBLICATION AUG 20 2014
MOLLY C. DWYER, CLERK
UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS U.S. COURT OF APPEALS
FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT
CHRISTIAN ERNESTO RODRIGUEZ- No. 08-70065
RODRIGUEZ,
Agency No. A097-558-094
Petitioner,
v. MEMORANDUM*
ERIC H. HOLDER, Jr., Attorney General,
Respondent.
On Petition for Review of an Order of the
Board of Immigration Appeals
Submitted August 13, 2014**
Before: SCHROEDER, THOMAS, and HURWITZ, Circuit Judges.
Christian Ernesto Rodriguez-Rodriguez, a native and citizen of El Salvador,
petitions for review of the Board of Immigration Appeals’ (“BIA”) order
dismissing his appeal from an immigration judge’s (“IJ”) decision denying his
application for asylum, withholding of removal, and relief under the Convention
*
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).
Against Torture (“CAT”). We have jurisdiction under 8 U.S.C. § 1252. We
review for substantial evidence factual findings. Zehatye v. Gonzales, 453 F.3d
1182, 1184-85 (9th Cir. 2006). We deny in part and grant in part the petition for
review, and we remand.
The agency denied Rodriguez-Rodriguez’s asylum application as time
barred. Rodriguez-Rodriguez does not challenge this finding in his opening brief.
In denying Rodriguez-Rodriguez’s withholding of removal claim, the
agency found Rodriguez-Rodriguez failed to establish a fear of future persecution
on account of a protected ground. When the IJ and BIA issued their decisions in
this case they did not have the benefit of this court’s decisions in Henriquez-Rivas
v. Holder, 707 F.3d 1081 (9th Cir. 2013) (en banc), Cordoba v. Holder, 726 F.3d
1106 (9th Cir. 2013), and Pirir-Boc v. Holder, 750 F.3d 1077 (9th Cir. 2014), or
the BIA’s decisions in Matter of M-E-V-G-, 26 I. & N. Dec. 227 (BIA 2014), and
Matter of W-G-R-, 26 I. & N. Dec. 208 (BIA 2014). Thus, we remand Rodriguez-
Rodriguez’s withholding of removal claim to determine the impact, if any, of these
decisions. See INS v. Ventura, 537 U.S. 12, 16-18 (2002) (per curiam).
In addition, the BIA appeared to have relied on the existence of government
corruption in denying Rodriguez-Rodriguez’s withholding of removal claim, but
did not consider government corruption in its analysis of his CAT claim. We
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remand Rodriguez-Rodriguez’s CAT claim for the agency to consider the impact
of government corruption on its analysis of state action. See id.; see also Madrigal
v. Holder, 716 F.3d 499, 509-510 (9th Cir. 2013).
Finally, we deny as moot Rodriguez-Rodriguez’s motion to remand.
Each party shall bear its own costs for this petition for review.
PETITION FOR REVIEW DENIED in part; GRANTED in part.
REMANDED.
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