USCA11 Case: 20-12414 Date Filed: 05/21/2021 Page: 1 of 9 [DO NOT PUBLISH] IN THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE ELEVENTH CIRCUIT ________________________ No. 20-12414 Non-Argument Calendar ________________________ Agency No. A208-054-441 ARCHIVALDO ANTONIO CHOW DAVILA, Petitioner, versus U.S. ATTORNEY GENERAL, Respondent. ________________________ Petition for Review of a Decision of the Board of Immigration Appeals ________________________ (May 21, 2021) Before JORDAN, GRANT, and LAGOA, Circuit Judges. PER CURIAM: USCA11 Case: 20-12414 Date Filed: 05/21/2021 Page: 2 of 9 Archivaldo Antonio Chow Davila seeks review of the Board of Immigration Appeals’s (“BIA”) final order affirming the immigration judge’s denial of his application for asylum and withholding of removal. He argues the BIA did not give reasoned consideration to, or make adequate findings based on, his application for asylum and withholding removal with respect to his showings of past persecution and of the nexus of that persecution to his political opinion. Because substantial evidence supports the BIA’s decision, we deny Davila’s petition. I. FACTUAL AND PROCEDURAL BACKGROUND In November 2012, Davila, a native and citizen of Nicaragua, entered the United States through Miami on a Temporary Visitor for Pleasure (B-2) visa, authorizing him to remain in the country through May 3, 2013. Davila overstayed his visa, and in February 2017, the Department of Homeland Security (“DHS”) served him with a notice to appear and charged him as removable under 8 U.S.C. § 1227(a)(1)(B). At that time, he applied for asylum and for withholding of removal under both the Immigration and Nationality Act (“INA”) and the United Nations Convention Against Torture (“CAT”). Davila claimed political persecution in his asylum application. His father was a journalist in Nicaragua and was imprisoned and tortured because of his articles about the government. Davila had refused to join the Sandinista party, and, following this refusal, he claimed that he was harassed, threatened with violence and 2 USCA11 Case: 20-12414 Date Filed: 05/21/2021 Page: 3 of 9 death, and had all his belongings stolen, by pro-Sandinista gangs, all of which went ignored by police. Because he refused to sign government documents self- identifying as a member of the Sandinista party, the government denied him an identification card, rendering him unemployable throughout the country. Davila also claimed that he feared to return to Nicaragua because of the gangs who worked for the government. An immigration judge held a merits hearing. Davila testified that government-affiliated gangs would kill him if returned to Nicaragua. He gave three examples of past gang intimidation. In 2006, he was robbed of his shoes at gunpoint by two gang members, which he reported to police who did nothing. In 2010, he was robbed at knifepoint by two gang members who worked for the government. When he reported this incident to police, they said that they had no resources and asked him for money to investigate. In 2011, two gang members broke into his house with weapons, robbed the house, and threatened to kill him and his family if they reported to the police. One …
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