Echeverria De Moreno v. Immigration & Naturalization Service

MEMORANDUM **

Martha Melida Echeverría De Moreno, a native and citizen of El Salvador, petitions for review of an order of the Board of Immigration Appeals (“BIA”) dismissing her appeal from an immigration judge’s *468 denial of her application for asylum. We have jurisdiction pursuant to 8 U.S.C. § llOSaia), 1 and we deny the petition.

We review for substantial evidence the BIA’s determination that Echeverría failed to establish asylum eligibility. Fisher v. INS, 79 F.3d 955, 961 (9th Cir.1996) (en banc). To reverse the BIA’s decision, we must find that the evidence not only supports a contrary conclusion, but compels it. See INS v. Elias-Zacarias, 502 U.S. 478, 482 , 112 S.Ct. 812 , 117 L.Ed.2d 38 (1992)

We deny Echeverria’s petition for review because the evidence does not compel the conclusion either that her own encounters with guerillas amounted to past persecution or that the encounters between her family members and the guerillas were sufficient to establish a well-founded fear of future persecution. See Fisher, 79 F.3d at 961 ; Arriaga-Barrientos v. U.S. INS, 937 F.2d 411, 414 (9th Cir.1991).

We deny Echeverria’s motion to remand to the BIA for a decision on her…