Luiz Pereira Santana v. LORETTA E. LYNCH, Attorney General

NOT FOR PUBLICATION
UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS
FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT
LUIZ PEREIRA SANTANA,
Petitioner,
v.
LORETTA E. LYNCH, Attorney General,
Respondent.
No. 12-72041
Agency No. A093-376-216
MEMORANDUM*
On Petition for Review of an Order of the
Board of Immigration Appeals
Submitted October 21, 2015**
San Francisco, California
Before: SILVERMAN and CHRISTEN, Circuit Judges and DUFFY,*** District
Judge.
FILED
OCT 28 2015
MOLLY C. DWYER, CLERK
U.S. COURT OF APPEALS
* 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).
*** The Honorable Kevin Thomas Duffy, District Judge for the U.S.
District Court for the Southern District of New York, sitting by designation.

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Luiz Santana, a native and citizen of Brazil, petitions for review of a final
order of removal denying statutory withholding of removal. We have jurisdiction
pursuant to 8 U.S.C. § 1252(b)(1) and deny the petition for review.
Substantial evidence supports the Board’s finding that Santana failed to
establish a clear probability that he will be persecuted in Brazil because of an
imputed whistleblower political opinion or membership in a social group of
individuals who report corruption and are not protected by the government.
Khudaverdyan v. Holder, 778 F.3d 1101, 1106 (9th Cir. 2015) (a petitioner must
establish that “the persecutor was motivated by a belief that the petitioner held” an
anti-corruption political opinion) (emphasis in the original).
The record does not compel a conclusion that Santana ever blew the whistle
on corruption, or that the unknown individual shot at Santana because the shooter
believed that Santana had opposed police corruption. Moreover, there is no
evidence that the shooting of Santana by some unknown person was in any way
connected to Santana’s recommendation of a logger to an undercover policeman.
The mere fact that the shooting occurred two weeks after the logger’s arrest does
not compel any particular inference. Kozulin v. INS, 218 F.3d 1112, 1117 (9th Cir.
2000) (holding that an anonymous attack three weeks after an expression of a
political opinion did not compel a finding of persecution on account of a political
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opinion where the attackers could have been motivated by revenge). Nor is there
any evidence in the record to compel a conclusion that the government knew that
Santana had been targeted, failed to protect him, or would not protect him if he
returned to Brazil.
PETITION FOR REVIEW DENIED.
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