UNPUBLISHED UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT No. 21-1439 ERICK DANILO MARTINEZ GONZALEZ, Petitioner, v. MERRICK B. GARLAND, Attorney General, Respondent. On Petition for Review of an Order of the Board of Immigration Appeals. Submitted: September 30, 2021 Decided: November 4, 2021 Before QUATTLEBAUM and RUSHING, Circuit Judges, and SHEDD, Senior Circuit Judge. Petition denied by unpublished per curiam opinion. Jay S. Marks, LAW OFFICES OF JAY S. MARKS, LLC, Silver Spring, Maryland, for Petitioner. Brian Boynton, Acting Assistant Attorney General, Anthony P. Nicastro, Assistant Director, Matthew B. George, Senior Litigation Counsel, Office of Immigration Litigation, Civil Division, UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE, Washington, D.C., for Respondent. Unpublished opinions are not binding precedent in this circuit. PER CURIAM: Erick Danilo Martinez Gonzalez, a native and citizen of El Salvador, petitions for review of an order of the Board of Immigration Appeals (“Board”) dismissing his appeal from the immigration judge’s (“IJ”) decision denying Gonzalez’s applications for asylum, withholding of removal, and protection under the Convention Against Torture (“CAT”). We deny the petition for review. We have reviewed the administrative record, including the transcript of the merits hearing and all supporting evidence, and considered the arguments pressed on appeal in conjunction with the record and the relevant authorities. We first conclude that the record evidence does not compel a ruling contrary to any of the agency’s factual findings, see 8 U.S.C. § 1252(b)(4)(B), and that substantial evidence supports the IJ’s dispositive ruling, affirmed by the Board, that Gonzalez failed to show the requisite nexus to a protected ground. See Cortez-Mendez v. Whitaker, 912 F.3d 205, 209 (4th Cir. 2019) (“Whether a person’s persecution shares a nexus with his alleged protected ground is a question of fact entitled to deference and reviewed for clear error.”). With regard to the denial of Gonzalez’s claim for CAT relief, we conclude that: (1) substantial evidence supports the relevant factual findings, see Nasrallah v. Barr, 140 S. Ct. 1683, 1692 (2020); and (2) the agency committed no legal error in its adjudication of Gonzalez’s CAT claim. Lastly, we conclude that the Board did not err in determining that the IJ’s decision did not need to be vacated because the IJ listed the incorrect charge of removability on the first page of the decision. 2 Accordingly, we deny the petition for review for the reasons stated by the Board. See In re Gonzalez (B.I.A. Mar. 22, 2021). We dispense with oral argument because the facts and legal contentions are adequately presented in the materials before this court and argument would not aid the decisional process. PETITION DENIED 3 21-1439 Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit ca4 4th Cir. Erick Martinez Gonzalez v. Merrick Garland 4 November 2021 Unpublished f39d0bb62ab2a54f6ac3a2d92ba73cd7f4bc0b1c
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