Case: 20-60178 Document: 00515553257 Page: 1 Date Filed: 09/04/2020 United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit FILED September 4, 2020 No. 20-60178 Lyle W. Cayce Clerk Manuel F. Nkoumou Ondo, Petitioner, versus William P. Barr, U.S. Attorney General, Respondent. Petition for Review of an Order of the Board of Immigration Appeals Agency No. A201 426 809 Before Willett, Ho, and Duncan, Circuit Judges. Per Curiam:* Manuel F. Nkoumou Ondo, a native and citizen of the Republic of Cameroon, petitions for review of the decision of the Board of Immigration Appeals (“BIA”), which adopted and affirmed the decision of the Immigration Judge (“IJ”) to deny his application for asylum and withholding of removal. Because Ondo failed to exhaust his administrative remedies with * Pursuant to 5th Circuit Rule 47.5, the court has determined that this opinion should not be published and is not precedent except under the limited circumstances set forth in 5th Circuit Rule 47.5.4. Case: 20-60178 Document: 00515553257 Page: 2 Date Filed: 09/04/2020 No. 20-60178 respect to one of his claims, we lack jurisdiction to consider it. With respect to his remaining claim, we deny his petition for review as meritless. I. Ondo was a “gendarme” 1 in the Cameroonian military and asserts that others in his unit committed human rights abuses. He testified that on one occasion, a military general asked him how many soldiers were stationed with him. Answering honestly, he provided a number much lower than that reported by his lieutenant, who had apparently inflated the number to receive increased food rations. According to Ondo, the lieutenant retaliated against him by assigning him longer guard duty shifts. He also testified that the same lieutenant gave orders for Ondo’s cousin to be killed after an unrelated altercation. After that, Ondo stated, the lieutenant approached him and said, “One is gone and the other will follow soon.” Ondo interpreted this as a threat that he would meet the same fate as his cousin. An IJ denied Ondo’s application for asylum, withholding of removal, and protection under the Convention Against Torture (“CAT”). Ondo appealed to the BIA, raising only his claim for asylum and withholding of removal. He contended the IJ had erred in denying his application because “[b]y practically any definition offered, Respondent has established persecution on account of hi[s] being a gendarme officer who was threatened for disclosing the corruption of Lieutenant Wonso.” Ondo’s argument before the BIA was essentially that the IJ’s opinion was “internally inconsistent” because it had found Ondo’s testimony credible but, despite a “mountain of evidence,” had disagreed that he was entitled to relief. 1 In Cameroon, a gendarme is a member of the military police force. Ondo testified that the gendarmes were sent to maintain order in areas of unrest. 2 Case: 20-60178 Document: 00515553257 Page: 3 Date Filed: 09/04/2020 No. 20-60178 The BIA adopted and affirmed the IJ’s decision. First, it noted that on appeal, Ondo did not challenge the denial of ...
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