Samala
Samala v. Immigration & Naturalization Service
Opinion
Lead Opinion
MEMORANDUM **
Soledad Cabiago Samala, a native and citizen of the Philippines, petitions pro se for review of the Board of Immigration Appeals’ (“BIA”) decision dismissing her appeal from an Immigration Judge’s (“IJ”) denial of her application for asylum and withholding of deportation under 8 U.S.C. §§ 1158 (a) and 1253(h). We have jurisdiction under 8 U.S.C. § llOSafe).
We review factual determinations concerning a petitioner’s eligibility for asylum under a substantial evidence standard, and we must uphold the BIA’s decision 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). We deny the petition for review.
Because petitioner failed to demonstrate that she suffered past persecution or has well founded fear of future persecution on account of political opinion, substantial evidence supported the BIA’s conclusion that petitioner was not eligible for asylum. See id. at 482-84 , 112 S.Ct. 812 ; see also Aruta v. INS, 80 F.3d 1389, 1392, 1395 (9th Cir.1996) (affirming BIA’s denial of asylum where petitioner had never been directly or indirectly the victim of any threat, or of any acts of aggression,…