Case: 18-12317 Date Filed: 03/15/2019 Page: 1 of 8 [DO NOT PUBLISH] IN THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE ELEVENTH CIRCUIT ________________________ No. 18-12317 Non-Argument Calendar ________________________ Agency No. A208-358-662 LUIS FRANCISCO ROJAS COLINA, Petitioner, versus U.S. ATTORNEY GENERAL, Respondent. ________________________ Petition for Review of a Decision of the Board of Immigration Appeals ________________________ (March 15, 2019) Before ROSENBAUM, JILL PRYOR, and ANDERSON, Circuit Judges. PER CURIAM: Luis Francisco Rojas Colina seeks review of the Board of Immigration Appeals’s (“BIA”) final order affirming the Immigration Judge’s (“IJ”) denial of his Case: 18-12317 Date Filed: 03/15/2019 Page: 2 of 8 applications for asylum and withholding of removal. Rojas Colina challenges the agency’s finding that he was ineligible for relief because he did not establish that his past mistreatment or feared future persecution, was on account of his real or imputed political opinion. After careful review, we deny the petition. I. Rojas Colina is a native and citizen of Venezuela who last entered the United States in February 2015 as a nonimmigrant visitor. He was placed in removal proceedings after he was found to have violated the terms of his visa status by working without authorization. He conceded removability and then applied for relief in the form of asylum and withholding of removal based on political opinion.1 A. Rojas Colina, who was represented by counsel, testified to the following at a merits hearing before an IJ. He has a college degree in electrical engineering. From 2011 to 2014, he worked as a Field Service Supervisor for Samsung in Caracas, Venezuela. Before that, he worked for another telecommunications-device company. He had also been involved in political parties opposed to the Venezuelan government since 2004. Rojas Colina first joined the Primero Justicia political party 1 Rojas Colina also applied for withholding under the Convention Against Torture, but his briefing does not address this ground for relief. So this issue is abandoned. 2 Case: 18-12317 Date Filed: 03/15/2019 Page: 3 of 8 before switching to the Un Nuevo Tiempo party when it split from Primero Justicia in 2006. He was politically active with Un Nuevo Tiempo through 2015. According to Rojas Colina, the events that caused him to leave Venezuela in fear began in 2013. Around this time, Samsung and the Venezuelan government had announced that they planned to open an assembly plant in Venezuela as a joint venture. The plan also included opening new service centers. Rojas Colina was in charge of hiring for part of the project. Because of this hiring authority, Rojas Colina was targeted by a government- affiliated telecommunications labor union. The labor union wanted to dictate whom he hired to work on the Samsung project. Rojas Colina refused, stating that he would hire people with the right skills and that nobody outside of Samsung would influence his hiring decisions. The labor union’s pressure campaign against Rojas Colina included threats through phone calls, text messages, and messages left with his secretary. At first, the threats were general, and he ...
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