Garcia-Sical

MEMORANDUM **

Victor Rudy Garcia-Sical, a native and citizen of Guatemala, petitions for review of the Board of Immigration Appeals’ (“BIA”) order dismissing his appeal from an Immigration Judge’s (“IJ”) denial of his application for asylum and withholding of removal. We have jurisdiction pursuant to 8 U.S.C. § 1252 , and we deny the petition for review.

We review factual findings concerning a petitioner’s eligibility for asylum for substantial evidence, and must uphold the BIA’s decision unless the evidence compels a contrary result. Cruz-Navarro v. INS, 232 F.3d 1024, 1028 (9th Cir.2000) (citing INS v. Elias-Zacarias, 502 U.S. 478, 483-84 , 112 S.Ct. 812 , 117 L.Ed.2d 38 (1992)).

Because Garcia-Sical failed to present evidence demonstrating that he had political motives for joining the police force, or that drug traffickers attributed a political opinion to him, substantial evidence supports the Id’s finding that Garcia-Sical faded to establish past persecution or a well-founded fear of future persecution on account of political opinion. See Cruz-Navarro, 232 F.3d at 1030 .

Substantial evidence also supports the conclusion that Garcia-Sical’s status as a current or former…