Rodas

MEMORANDUM **

Milton Manuel Reyes Rodas petitions for review of the Board of Immigration Appeals’ (“BIA”) decision affirming the Immigration Judge’s (“IJ”) determination that he was not eligible for asylum and withholding of removal. We have jurisdiction pursuant to 8 U.S.C. § 1252 . We deny the petition for review.

*588 We review the BIA’s factual determination that an applicant has not proven eligibility for asylum under the substantial evidence standard. Ochave v. INS, 254 F.3d 859, 861-62 (9th Cir.2001). The substantial evidence standard is extremely deferential; we will affirm the BIA’s denial unless the applicant’s evidence compels a contrary result. Hernandez-Montiel v. INS, 225 F.3d 1084, 1090-91 (9th Cir. 2000). Where the BIA adopts the IJ’s decision as its own, this court will treat the IJ’s statement of reasons as the BIA’s and review the IJ’s decision. Gonzalez v. INS, 82 F.3d 903, 907 (9th Cir.1996).

In the present case, the IJ found that Rodas’s testimony was entitled to “full evidentiary weight.” However, even giving his testimony full weight, he faded to establish that he suffered past persecution because of his political opinions or that he had a well-founded…