Miguel Pulido-Romero v. Eric Holder, Jr.

MEMORANDUM

Miguel Pulido-Romero, a native and citizen of Mexico, petitions pro se for review of the Board of Immigration Appeals’ (“BIA”) order dismissing his appeal from an immigration judge’s decision denying his application for asylum, withholding of removal, and relief under the Convention Against Torture (“CAT”). We have jurisdiction under 8 U.S.C. § 1252 . We review for substantial evidence the agency’s factual findings, Zehatye v. Gonzales, 453 F.3d 1182, 1184-85 (9th Cir.2006), and we deny the petition for review.

Pulido-Romero testified that a narcotics criminal threatened to kill Pulido-Romero’s policeman brother and his brother’s family, and subsequently hired hitmen who killed his brother. Substantial evidence supports the agency’s determination that Pulido-Romero failed to establish he suffered harm rising to the level of persecution. See Wakkary v. Holder, 558 F.3d 1049, 1060 (9th Cir.2009) (requiring a showing that harm to others was “part of ‘a pattern of persecution closely tied to’ ” petitioner himself); see also Nahrvani v. Gonzales, 399 F.3d 1148, 1153-54 (9th Cir.2005) (vague threats did not compel finding of past persecution where the petitioner never had a…