Garalde
Garalde v. Immigration & Naturalization Service
Opinion
Lead Opinion
MEMORANDUM **
Romeo Torres Garalde, a native and citizen of the Philippines, petitions pro se for review of an order of the Board of Immigration Appeals (“BIA”) dismissing his appeal from an immigration judge’s denial of his application for asylum and withholding of deportation. 1 We have jurisdiction pursuant to 8 U.S.C. § 1105a(a), 2 and we deny the petition.
We review for substantial evidence the BIA’s determination that Garalde has failed to establish asylum eligibility because he has failed to demonstrate persecution or well-founded fear thereof on account of membership in a particular social group, political opinion, or any other prohibited ground. Singh v. INS, 134 F.3d 962, 966 (9th Cir.1998). To reverse the BIA’s decision we must find that the evidence not only supports a contrary conclusion, but compels it. Id.
We deny Gar aide’s petition for review because the evidence does not compel the conclusion that Gar aide’s alleged persecutors were or would be motivated by his real or imputed political opinions or by his membership in a particular social group. See INS v. Elias-Zacarias, 502 U.S. 478, 482 , 112 S.Ct. 812 , 117 L.Ed.2d 38 (1992). Because the evidence does not…