Mansilla-Castillo

MEMORANDUM **

Petitioner Bertha Brasilia MansillaCastillo (“Mansilla”) seeks review of the *812 final order of the Board of Immigration Appeals (“BIA”) dismissing her appeal from the Immigration Judge’s (“IJ”) denial of her requests for asylum and withholding of exclusion and deportation. Where, as here, the BIA conducts its own review of the record, makes its own findings, and independently determines the sufficiency of the evidence, we review the BIA’s determinations rather than those of the IJ. Surita v. INS, 95 F.3d 814, 819 (9th Cir.1996). We review the BIA’s factual decision that an alien has not established eligibility for asylum and withholding of deportation under the substantial evidence standard. Rivera-Moreno v. INS, 213 F.3d 481, 485 (9th Cir.2000). For us to reverse the BIA’s decision, Mansilla must establish not just that the evidence supports a contrary decision, but that it compels it. Ghaly v. INS, 58 F.3d 1425, 1431 (9th Cir.1995). Applying this standard, we deny the petition for review. Because the facts are familiar to the parties, we recount them only as necessary to explain our decision.

Mansilla first argues that the BIA erred because it failed to review…