Vera

MEMORANDUM

Juan Carlos Vera petitions for review of the Board of Immigration Appeals’ decision denying his application for asylum and withholding of removal. We have jurisdiction pursuant to 8 U.S.C. § 1252 , and we deny Vera’s petition.

Substantial evidence supports that Board’s conclusion that Vera was not targeted on account of a protected ground. See Gu v. Gonzales, 454 F.3d 1014, 1018 (9th Cir.2006) (holding that the Board’s decision must be affirmed unless “the applicant shows that the evidence compels the conclusion that the asylum decision was incorrect”). Here, the record indicates that Vera “was threatened by police in Argentina for seeking redress for an attack (rape) upon” his brother. Thus, Vera “fears harm because of a personal matter between him” and a few rogue police officers — not based on a protected ground. See Molino-Morales v. I.N.S., 237 F.3d 1048, 1051 (9th Cir.2001). Addi tionally, the severity of harm that Vera experienced in Argentina — including his brief detention, an isolated threat from police, and a single incident of physical mistreatment — does not compel the conclusion that Vera was subjected to past persecution. See Prasad v. I.N.S., 47 F.3d…