REYES ABIGAIL LINARES- GONZALEZ, AKA Reyes Abigail Linares v. LORETTA E. LYNCH, Attorney General

NOT FOR PUBLICATION
UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS
FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT
REYES ABIGAIL LINARES-
GONZALEZ, AKA Reyes Abigail
Linares,
Petitioner,
v.
LORETTA E. LYNCH, Attorney General,
Respondent.
No. 12-71142
Agency No. A075-679-882
MEMORANDUM*
On Petition for Review of an Order of the
Board of Immigration Appeals
Argued and Submitted October 20, 2015
Pasadena, California
Before: PREGERSON and CALLAHAN, Circuit Judges and BASTIAN,** District
Judge.
Petitioner Reyes Abigail Linares-Gonzales (“Linares”) challenges the denial
of his application for asylum, withholding of removal, and relief under the
FILED
MAR 21 2016
MOLLY C. DWYER, CLERK
U.S. COURT OF APPEALS
* This disposition is not appropriate for publication and is not precedent
except as provided by 9th Cir. R. 36-3.
** The Honorable Stanley Allen Bastian, District Judge for the U.S.
District Court for the Eastern District of Washington, sitting by designation.

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Convention Against Torture (“CAT”).1 We have jurisdiction pursuant to 8 U.S.C.
§ 1252(a)(1), and we deny the petition.
Linares does not claim that he has suffered any past persecution, and poverty
and general conditions of violence are insufficient to support a claim of asylum or
withholding of removal. See, e.g., Lolong v. Gonzales, 484 F.3d 1173, 1179–80
(9th Cir. 2007); Li v. INS, 92 F.3d 985, 987 (9th Cir. 1996). Similarly, general
conditions of violence and poverty are insufficient to show that it is more likely
than not that he would be tortured if he returned to Guatemala. See 8 C.F.R. §
208.18(a)(1). Accordingly, Linares has not met his burden of showing his
entitlement to asylum, withholding of removal, or relief under CAT.
PETITION DENIED.
1Linares’ petition for relief in connection with his request for cancellation of
removal is addressed in a separate opinion issued concurrently with this
memorandum disposition.

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