Gonzalez-Melendez

MEMORANDUM *

Dinora Roxana Gonzalez-Melendez, a native and citizen of El Salvador, petitions for review of a decision of the Board of Immigration Appeals (“BIA”) dismissing her appeal of an immigration judge’s (“IJ”) denial of her applications for asylum and withholding of deportation, and her request for voluntary departure. We have jurisdiction pursuant to 8 U.S.C. § 1105a, 1 and we deny the petition for review.

The BIA conducted a de novo review of Gonzalez-Melendez’s claim for relief, so we limit our own review to the BIA’s decision. Garrovillas v. INS, 156 F.3d 1010, 1013 (9th Cir.1998). We review for substantial evidence the factual findings underlying the BIA’s determination that Gonzalez-Melendez failed to establish eligibility for asylum or withholding, and will uphold them unless the evidence compels a contrary result. INS v. Elias-Zacarias, 502 U.S. 478, 481 , 112 S.Ct. 812 , 117 L.Ed.2d 38 (1992).

Gonzalez-Melendez contends that, if returned to El Salvador, she would be persecuted on account of a political opinion that was imputed to her because of her brother’s association with and eventual defection from the FMLN guerrillas. To qualify for asylum, it is her burden…