Vasquez
Vasquez v. Immigration & Naturalization Service
Opinion
Lead Opinion
MEMORANDUM **
Victor Vasquez, a Guatemalan native and citizen, and derivatively his wife, also a Guatemalan native and citizen, petition for review of the BIA’s decision affirming an IJ’s denial of his request for asylum and withholding of deportation. We have jurisdiction pursuant to 8 U.S.C. § 1105a(a), 1 and we deny the petition for review. Since the parties are familiar with the facts, we will not recite them in this’ decision.
We review the BIA’s determination that Vasquez was not eligible for asylum for substantial evidence. Pedro-Mateo v. INS, 224 F.3d 1147, 1150 (9th Cir.2000). To prevail, Vasquez must show that the evidence not only supports, but compels the conclusion that the BIA was incorrect. Id.
Substantial evidence supports the BIA’s determination that Vasquez failed to prove that he suffered past persecution or had a well-founded fear of future persecution on account of his political opinion. See INS v. Elias-Zacarias, 502 U.S. 478, 482 , 112 S.Ct. 812 , 117 L.Ed.2d 38 (1992). Vasquez did not link the threats and two attacks to his actual or imputed political opinion. Vasquez cannot identify who wanted to harm him or why. Vasquez had no personal interactions…