Interiano

MEMORANDUM **

Ana Maria Interiano, a native and citizen of Guatemala, petitions pro se for review of the Board of Immigration Appeals’ (“BIA”) decision affirming the Immigration Judge’s (“IJ”) order denying her applications for asylum and withholding of removal. We have jurisdiction pursuant to 8 U.S.C. § 1252 . 1 We review BIA decisions adopting the IJ’s findings and reasoning that an alien has not established eligibility for asylum under the substantial evidence standard, Ochave v. INS, 254 F.Bd 859, 861-62 (9th Cir.2001), and deny the petition.

Substantial evidence supports the BIA’s conclusion that petitioner did not qualify for asylum because petitioner failed to establish past persecution or a well founded fear of future persecution on account of her political opinion. See INS v. Elias-Zacarias, 502 U.S. 478, 482-84 , 112 S.Ct. 812 , 117 L.Ed.2d 38 (1992).

Because petitioner did not satisfy the standard for asylum, she necessarily did not satisfy the more stringent standard for withholding of removal. See Fisher v. INS, 79 F.3d 955, 965 (9th Cir.1996) (en banc).

Contrary to petitioner’s contention, the BIA did not abuse its discretion by adopting the IJ’s findings and…