NOT FOR PUBLICATION FILED UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS JAN 7 2020 MOLLY C. DWYER, CLERK U.S. COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT ZUOYUN WU, No. 15-71689 Petitioner, Agency No. A088-114-137 v. MEMORANDUM* WILLIAM P. BARR, Attorney General, Respondent. On Petition for Review of an Order of the Board of Immigration Appeals Submitted July 11, 2019** Pasadena, California Before: M. SMITH and FRIEDLAND, Circuit Judges, and SIMON,*** District Judge. Petitioner Zuoyun Wu seeks review of the final order of the Board of Immigration Appeals (“BIA”) affirming the decision of an Immigration Judge * This disposition is not appropriate for publication and is not precedent except as provided by Ninth Circuit Rule 36-3. ** The panel unanimously concludes this case is suitable for decision without oral argument. See Fed. R. App. P. 34(a)(2). *** The Honorable Michael H. Simon, United States District Judge for the District of Oregon, sitting by designation. (“IJ”) denying Petitioner’s applications for asylum, withholding of removal, and relief under the Convention Against Torture (“CAT”). We have jurisdiction under 8 U.S.C. § 1252 and deny the petition. 1. Petitioner is a native and citizen of the People’s Republic of China. He was admitted to the United States on March 11, 2006, as a nonimmigrant visitor with authorization to remain in the United States for a temporary period not to exceed June 10, 2006. After that deadline, he remained in the United States without authorization. Petitioner asserts that he suffered persecution in China because he opposed its population control policies and that the Chinese police detained and harmed him because of his practice of Christianity in an underground church. 2. To qualify for asylum, an applicant must show past persecution or a well-founded fear of future persecution on account of race, religion, nationality, membership in a particular social group, or political opinion. Al-Harbi v. I.N.S., 242 F.3d 882, 888 (9th Cir. 2001) (citing 8 U.S.C. § 1101(a)(42)(A)). A well- founded fear of persecution must be both “subjectively genuine” and “objectively reasonable.” Id. To qualify for withholding of removal, an applicant must show that “it is more likely than not that he would be subject to persecution” because of a protected ground. Id. (quoting I.N.S. v. Stevic, 467 U.S. 407, 429–30 (1984)). To qualify for relief under the CAT, an applicant must show that “it is more likely 2 than not that he or she would be tortured if removed to the proposed country of removal.” 8 C.F.R. § 1208.16(c)(2). 3. An adverse credibility determination alone, when properly based on substantial evidence, is enough to support the denial of asylum, withholding of removal, and relief under the CAT. Shrestha v. Holder, 590 F.3d 1034, 1048 n.6 (9th Cir. 2010). In evaluating credibility, the IJ must consider “the totality of the circumstances, and all relevant factors,” including, among other things, “demeanor . . . of the applicant . . . , the consistency between the applicant’s . . . written and oral statements[, and] the internal consistency of each such ...
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