Andrea De Jesus Vasquez, Petitioner, v. Immigration and Naturalization Service, Respondent, 139 F.3d 904 (9th Cir. 1998)

MEMORANDUM^* 

Andrea De Jesus Vasquez, a native and citizen of El Salvador, petitions pro se for review of the Board of Immigration Appeals' (BIA) summary dismissal of her appeal from the immigration judge's denial of her applications for asylum and withholding of deportation under 8 U.S.C. §§ 1158(a) and 1253(h). She contends that she established a well-founded fear of persecution by guerrillas. The BIA, however, dismissed her appeal because she did not file a brief and did not refer in her notice of appeal to any finding of fact or conclusion of law with which she disagreed. De Jesus Vasquez did not raise this issue in her opening brief and has therefore waived any challenge to the BIA's summary procedure. See Martinez-Serrano v. INS, 94 F.3d 1256, 1259 (9th Cir. 1996), cert. denied, --- U.S. ----, 118 S. Ct. 49, 139 L. Ed. 2d 15 (1997).

PETITION FOR REVIEW DENIED.