Puentes-Solis

MEMORANDUM

Paula Puentes-Solis and her two children, natives and citizens of Guatelmala, petition for review of the Board of Immigration Appeals’ (“BIA”) order dismissing their appeal from an immigration judge’s decision denying their application for asylum and withholding of removal. We have jurisdiction pursuant to 8 U.S.C. § 1252 . We review for substantial evidence, Ochave v. INS, 254 F.3d 859, 861-62 (9th Cir.2001), and we deny the petition.

The record does not compel the conclusion that changed or extraordinary circumstances excused the untimely filing of petitioners’ asylum application. See 8 C.F.R. §§ 1208.4 (a)(4), (5); Ramadan v. Gonzales, 479 F.3d 646, 656-58 (9th Cir.2007) (per curiam). Accordingly, petitioners’ asylum claim fails.

Puentes-Solis could only speculate as to the reasons for her husband’s disappearance, the anonymous threats, the attacks by local women, and a rape and injury by masked men. Therefore, substantial evidence supports the BIA’s conclusion that Puentes-Solis failed to establish that these incidents occurred on account of a protected ground. See Molina-Estrada v. INS, 293 F.3d 1089, 1094-95 (9th Cir.2002) (evidence did not compel a finding of…