Buesa

MEMORANDUM

Eduardo Crisologo Buesa (“Buesa”) petitions pro se for review of the Board of Immigration Appeals’ (“BIA”) order affirming and adopting an Immigration Judge’s (“IJ”) order denying Buesa’s applications for asylum and withholding of deportation. We have jurisdiction under 8 U.S.C. § 1105a(a) 3 and we deny the petition.

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Buesa contends that he is entitled to asylum because he fears persecution from a communist group in the Philippines that has targeted him for death due to his service as a “civilian agent” in the military. This court reviews the BIA’s decision not to grant asylum for an abuse of discretion. Abedini v. INS, 971 F.2d 188, 191 (9th Cir.1992). We review the BIA’s factual findings underlying its decision to deny asylum and withholding of deportation under the substantial evidence standard. Martirosyan v. INS, 229 F.3d 903, 908 (9th Cir.2000). Where, as here, the BIA adopts an IJ’s findings and reasoning, this court reviews the IJ’s opinion as if it were the opinion of the BIA. Singh-Kaur v. INS, 183 F.3d 1147, 1150 (9th Cir.1999). “[I]f supported by reasonable, substantial, and probative evidence on the record considered as a whole, the BIA’s…