OPINION
Hеrmanawan Tanzil, a native and citizen of Indonesia, petitions for review of two Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA) decisions denying his motions to reopen. We consolidated the cases and will now deny the petitiоns for review.
I.
Given the narrow ambit of our review, we will only briefly recapitulate the background of this case. Tanzil is an ethnic Chinese Christian from Indonesia, who traveled to the United States for pleasure and overstayеd his visa. After the commencement of removal proceedings, he filed for asylum, withholding of removal, and protection under the Convention Against Torture (CAT). Tanzil appeared before Immigration Judge (IJ) Rosalind K. Malloy, whо determined that his failure to file within the one-year deadline rendered him statutorily ineligible for asylum. See Certified Administrative Record (A.)
We held that substantial record evidence supported the agency’s outcome, and denied Tanzil’s petition for review of the denial of withholding of removal. See Tanzil v. Att’y Gen.,
Since that time, Tanzil has filed two functionаlly identical motions to reopen and reconsider with the BIA. In his first, submitted on June 29, 2009, Tanzil presented “evidence [that] was not available at the time of the briefing that was submitted in 2007” to support his contention that “conditions are wоrsening, not improving in Indonesia for people like the Respondents [sic ].” A.82. The evidence consisted of an Indonesian government report and a “rebuttal” NGO report on human-rights conditions and discrimination in Indonesia, alоng with a transcript of testimony given by Dr. Jeffrey Winters “from a substantially similar case of a claim by ethnic Chinese Indonesians for asylum.” A.82. Tanzil argued that “[t]he additional evidence submitted directly contradictfed] the final Board findings and is cоnsistent with Dr. Winters’ testimony,” in that it demonstrated “a pattern or practice of persecution” rooted in “a de jure system of discriminatory laws.” A.85-S6. Moreover, the new submissions “clearly show[ed] that the Government of Indonesia cannot or will not protect its Chinese and Christian citizens from private Islamic fundamentalists.” A.88.
The BIA disagreed, denying the motion to reopen because the “evidence [did] not meaningfully reflect ‘changed country
Tanzil responded to this adverse ruling by filing a petition for review with this Court. He then submitted a second motion to reopen or to reconsider with the BIA “based on the Bоard’s incorrect finding that an Exhibit submitted by the Respondent in support of his Motion was of uncertain origin.’” A.9. He further complained that the BIA’s decision was “completely devoid of any consideration [sic ] of this document, much less of the fact that it constitutes the official Indonesian government statement on discrimination.” A.9. The BIA granted the motion to reconsider, but affirmed its earlier ruling that the contents of the government report, “considered аlong with the documentation submitted in support of the motion to reopen filed on June 22, 2009, [did not] warrant the reopening of proceedings insofar as the documents do not meaningfully reflect changed conditions in Indonеsia.” A.3. Tanzil filed a second petition for review with this Court.
II.
We have jurisdiction pursuant to 8 U.S.C. § 1252(a)(1). Recognizing that motions to reopen, which are governed in the
III.
We cаnnot find that the BIA abused its discretion in declining to reopen proceedings on either occasion. First, Tanzil has not shown that the BIA shirked its duty to analyze the evidence before it. He argues that “[t]he two Board decisions at issue in this Petition do not provide substantive analysis of the information contained in the CERD Report, the NGO Report or the expert testimony,” Pet’r’s Br. 8, but immediately thereafter acknowledges that “[t]he first Board decision of December 29, 2009 ... recited the evidentiary submissions.” The BIA need not write an exegesis on every document submitted, see Wong v. Att’y Gen.,
Moreover, some of the ostensible BIA decisions to which Tanzil objects do not appear to be reflected in the record. He asserts, for example, that the BIA placed “excessive weight on prior decisions that were based in older [State Department] Repоrts” instead of considering the new evidence submitted. Pet’r’s Br. 12. One of the cases he identifies is Sioe Tjen Wong. But the BIA did not “rely” on the factual background of Sioe Tjen Wong in the decisions that are the subject of this petition; instead, it cited the case to demonstrate this Circuit’s rejection of the Ninth Circuit’s “disfаvored group” analysis. Nor do we find any record support for Tanzil’s claim—which follows a broadside on the general reliability of State Department reports—that “[t]he approach of the Board in this decision ... appears to be returning to the once-universally rejected primacy of the [State Department] Reports,” or his similar contention that “the Board’s finding essentially upholds its reliance on this Court’s previous deсisions that relied on those outdated and incomplete [State Department] Reports.” Pet’r’s Br. 19-20. The BIA’s decisions were appropriately, and narrowly, confined to whether the new evidence presented dеmonstrated changed country conditions sufficient to warrant reopening, and we do not see where the BIA allegedly overspilled those boundaries.
Turning to the substantive merits of the evidence, we simply cannot agree with Tanzil that his submissions demonstrated changed country conditions, especially under the “clear probability” withholding of removal standard and our own deferential standard of review. The NGO report, which he describes as а “scathing” commentary on the Indonesian government’s own summary of its record on human rights and discrimination, is far more equivocal and technical than he implies, and would appear to take issue with the government’s resрonse to past atrocities, the inefficiencies of Indonesia’s court system with regard to discriminatory acts, and the pace of the government’s implementation of liberalizing, democratizing, and integrating reforms—a noble critique, to be sure, but not one showing changed country conditions implicating renewed persecution of ethnic Chinese.
IV.
For the foregoing reasons, we will deny the consolidated petitions for review.
Notes
. All citations are to the administrative record submitted in C.A. No. 10-3355, which is the more comprehensive and up-to-date of the two.
. We agree with the Government that Tanzil's motions to reopen were filed long after the time period allowed by tire applicable regulations. The BIA rendered its merits decision on March 25, 2008; Tanzil’s first motion was filed on June 19, 2009. This is significantly "later than 90 days аfter the date on which the final administrative decision was rendered in the proceeding sought to be reopened.” 8 C.F.R. § 1003.2(c)(2). Inasmuch as Tanzil limited his arguments to "changed circumstances” arising in Indonesia, the BIA could and did still entertain the motions. See id. § 1003.2(c)(3)(ii).
. Tanzil misidentifies the standard of review that should apply to his petition. In his brief, he asserts that ”[t]his court reviews questions of law under the de novo standard”—later, he simplifies this to ”[t]he Court's review is de novo"—and charges us with determining whether "[the BIA's] 'pattern or practice’ determination did not apply appropriate standards for the definition of persecution and was made without full consideration of all evidence.” Pet’r’s Br. 9. While technically not incorrect insofar as review of law is concerned—indeed, if motions to reopen turn entirely on questions of law, we review the BIA’s legal conclusions de novo, see Luntungan v. Att'y Gen.,
We would be inclined to attribute this to an error in drafting if not for Tanzil’s insistence on adhering to his proffered de novo approach even after the Government pointed out his error. See Gov’t’s Br. 13; Pet'r’s Reply Br. 2. In any case, Tanzil has not justified the use of any alternative stаndard of review, and we will proceed under abuse of discretion analysis.
. Nor do Tanzil's descriptions of the NGO report always jibe with its actual contents. In his motion to reopen, for example, Tanzil cited parаgraph 166 of the report for the conclusion that “most victims of discrimination and these crimes are ethnically Chinese (a group barely mentioned in the Government report).” A.85. But the NGO report is less clear on this point, as it reports that "[mjost victims are Chinese ethnic and other ethnics/tribes specifically connected with their identity of their religion or belief." A. 174 (emphasis added).