United States First Circuit

Applications for asylum, withholding of removal, and relief under the Convention Against Torture (CAT) were properly denied, where: 1) the harms petitioner suffered, even viewed collectively, were not severe or frequent enough to amount to persecution and there is insufficient evidence of future persecution; 2) even assuming that petitioner had suffered harms amounting to persecution, she adduced no evidence connecting the harassment she had experienced with government action or inaction; and 3) because petitioner has failed to demonstrate that she is eligible for asylum, her claims for withholding of removal and relief under CAT also fail.

Appellate Information

• Decided 02/11/2013
• Published 02/11/2013

Judges

• LIPEZ

Court

• United States First Circuit

Counsel