Yasser Abel Tabares Leyva v. ROBERT M. WILKINSON, Acting Attorney General

NOT FOR PUBLICATION
UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS
FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT
YASSER ABEL TABARES LEYVA,
Petitioner,
v.
ROBERT M. WILKINSON, Acting
Attorney General,
Respondent.
No. 20-70762
Agency No. A215-880-364
MEMORANDUM*
On Petition for Review of an Order of the
Board of Immigration Appeals
Submitted March 8, 2021**
San Francisco, California
Before: McKEOWN and IKUTA, Circuit Judges, and ERICKSEN,*** District
Judge.
Yasser Abel Tabares Leyva, a native and citizen of Cuba, seeks review of
the Board of Immigration Appeals’ (BIA) decision affirming the decision of the
* This disposition is not appropriate for publication and is not precedent
except as provided by Ninth Circuit Rule 36-3.
** The panel unanimously concludes this case is suitable for decision
without oral argument. See Fed. R. App. P. 34(a)(2).
*** The Honorable Joan N. Ericksen, United States District Judge for the
District of Minnesota, sitting by designation.
FILED
MAR 10 2021
MOLLY C. DWYER, CLERK
U.S. COURT OF APPEALS

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Immigration Judge (IJ) to deny Tabares’ application for asylum. We have
jurisdiction under 8 U.S.C. § 1252(a)(1) and we deny the petition for review.
The IJ’s adverse credibility finding was supported by substantial evidence.
There were sufficient indicia of reliability to permit the BIA and us to consider
Tabares’ sworn statements in his I-877 form and the Customs and Border
Protection officer’s report on form I-213. See Mukulumbutu v. Barr, 977 F.3d 924,
926 (9th Cir. 2020); Angov v. Lynch, 788 F.3d 893, 905 (9th Cir. 2015) (“The
presumption of regularity has been applied far and wide to many functions
performed by government officials.”). Tabares’ assertion in his sworn asylum
application that his mother and sister had lived in Ecuador for the prior four years
conflicts with his earlier sworn statement that his parents lived in Cuba. Also,
Tabares’ initial statement that his sister lived in Georgia conflicts with his
subsequent sworn testimony that his sister did not live in Georgia. Both the IJ and
the BIA found that these inconsistencies supported an adverse credibility finding,
and no “evidence in the record compels” this court to reach “a contrary result.”
Parussimova v. Mukasey, 555 F.3d 734, 738 (9th Cir. 2009); 8 U.S.C. §
1252(b)(4)(B) (agency factual findings “are conclusive unless any reasonable
adjudicator would be compelled to conclude to the contrary.”) Moreover, these
inconsistencies are not “utterly trivial.” Shrestha v. Holder, 590 F.3d 1034, 1044
(9th Cir. 2010) (“When an inconsistency is cited as a factor supporting an adverse

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credibility determination, that inconsistency should not be a mere trivial error such
as a misspelling.”). Tabares’ other arguments regarding procedural defects in the
record are unexhausted, so we may not consider them. Barron v. Ashcroft, 339
F.3d 814, 819 (9th Cir. 2003).
Absent credible testimony, Tabares’ asylum claim fails. See Farah v.
Ashcroft, 348 F.3d 1153, 1156 (9th Cir. 2003). We need not reach Tabares’ other
arguments.1
PETITION DENIED.
1 Tabares’ motions for stay of removal [Dkt. 1] and to supplement the record [Dkt.
14] are denied as moot.

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