CASTILLO-DIAZ v. HOLDER

No. 08-1570.

562 F.3d 23 (2009)

Andrea Del Carmen CASTILLO-DIAZ, Petitioner, v. Eric H. HOLDER, Jr., Attorney General, Respondent.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Decided March 30, 2009.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jose A. Espinosa, for petitioner.

Gregory G. Katsas, Assistant Attorney General, Civil Division, Francis Fraser, Senior Litigation Counsel and Kate D. Balaban, Trial Attorney, Office of Immigration Litigation, Civil Division, United States Department of Justice, for respondent.

Before BOUDIN, JOHN R. GIBSON, and HOWARD, Circuit Judges.


HOWARD, Circuit Judge.

Petitioner Andrea Del Carmen Castillo-Diaz, a native and citizen of El Salvador, seeks review of a Board of Immigration Appeals ("BIA") final order summarily affirming an Immigration Judge's ("IJ") denial of her applications for asylum and withholding of removal. Finding no legal error in the IJ's reasoning, and discerning substantial evidence in the record supporting the IJ's determination, we deny the petition.

I. BACKGROUND

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