Maria Teresa Mercado Melendez v. LORETTA E. LYNCH, Attorney General

NOT FOR PUBLICATION
UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS
FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT
MARIA TERESA MERCADO
MELENDEZ,
Petitioner,
v.
LORETTA E. LYNCH, Attorney General,
Respondent.
No. 11-73835
Agency No. A094-832-495
MEMORANDUM*
On Petition for Review of an Order of the
Board of Immigration Appeals
Submitted August 16, 2016**
Before: O’SCANNLAIN, LEAVY, and CLIFTON, Circuit Judges.
Maria Teresa Mercado Melendez, a native and citizen of El Salvador,
petitions for review of the Board of Immigration Appeals’ (“BIA”) order
dismissing her appeal from an immigration judge’s decision denying her
application for withholding of removal. We have jurisdiction under 8 U.S.C. §
* 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).
FILED
AUG 24 2016
MOLLY C. DWYER, CLERK
U.S. COURT OF APPEALS

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1252. We review for substantial evidence the agency’s factual findings. Zetino v.
Holder, 622 F.3d 1007, 1012 (9th Cir. 2010). We deny the petition for review.
Substantial evidence supports the BIA’s determination that Mercado
Melendez failed to establish a nexus to her proposed protected ground. See
Parussimova v. Mukasey, 555 F.3d 734, 740 (9th Cir. 2009) (the REAL ID Act
“requires that a protected ground represent ‘one central reason’ for an asylum
applicant’s persecution”). We reject Mercado Melendez’s contentions that the
agency did not properly address her claim. In light of our disposition, we need not
reach her remaining contentions. Thus, her withholding of removal claim fails.
PETITION FOR REVIEW DENIED.

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