Case: 20-60858 Document: 00516072657 Page: 1 Date Filed: 10/28/2021 United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit FILED October 28, 2021 No. 20-60858 Lyle W. Cayce Summary Calendar Clerk Dunia Raquel Siles-Andrades, Petitioner, versus Merrick Garland, U.S. Attorney General, Respondent. Petition for Review of an Order of the Board of Immigration Appeals BIA No. A206 488 754 Before Davis, Jones, and Elrod, Circuit Judges. Per Curiam:* Dunia Raquel Siles-Andrades, a native and citizen of Nicaragua, petitions for review of a Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA) order dismissing her appeal of an Immigration Judge (IJ) order denying her applications for asylum, withholding of removal, and relief under the * Pursuant to 5th Circuit Rule 47.5, the court has determined that this opinion should not be published and is not precedent except under the limited circumstances set forth in 5th Circuit Rule 47.5.4.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: 20-60858 Document: 00516072657 Page: 2 Date Filed: 10/28/2021 No. 20-60858 Convention Against Torture (CAT) based on physical abuse inflicted by her estranged husband. Siles-Andrades argues that she established that she experienced past persecution and had a well-founded fear of future persecution based on her membership in a cognizable particular social group and based on her imputed political opinion. She contends that her relocation within Nicaragua would be unreasonable because her husband threatened to harm her if she returned, because violence against women remained widespread, and because she would have to support her two children in an unfamiliar area. We review the BIA’s decision and consider the IJ’s decision only to the extent it influenced the BIA. Singh v. Sessions, 880 F.3d 220, 224 (5th Cir. 2018). Factual findings are reviewed for substantial evidence and legal determinations are reviewed de novo. Lopez-Gomez v. Ashcroft, 263 F.3d 442, 444 (5th Cir. 2001). Under the substantial evidence standard, we may not overturn a factual finding unless the evidence compels a contrary result. Martinez-Lopez v. Barr, 943 F.3d 766, 769 (5th Cir. 2019). A number of Siles-Andrades’s claims are abandoned, unexhausted, or otherwise unreviewable by this court. See Chambers v. Mukasey, 520 F.3d 445, 448 n.1 (5th Cir. 2008); Wang v. Ashcroft, 260 F.3d 448, 452-53 (5th Cir. 2001). Siles-Andrades failed to challenge the denial of her CAT claim in her appeal to the BIA. Accordingly, even though she seeks to raise it in her petition for review, this issue is unexhausted, and we lack jurisdiction to consider it. Wang, 260 F.3d at 452-53. Further, in her appeal to the BIA and in her petition for review, Siles-Andrades did not brief any challenge to the IJ’s finding that her asylum application was untimely because it was filed more than one year after her entry into the United States. Accordingly, as the BIA determined, this issue is abandoned. See Chambers, 520 F.3d at 448 n.1. Because the BIA affirmed the denial of asylum and withholding of removal on the basis that Siles-Andrades failed to establish that the 2 Case: 20-60858 Document: 00516072657 Page: 3 Date …
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