Suarez

MEMORANDUM **

Salvador Del Real Suarez, a native and citizen of Mexico, petitions for review of the Board of Immigration Appeals’ (“BIA”) order summarily affirming the immigration judge’s (“U”) denial of his applications for asylum and withholding of removal. We have jurisdiction under 8 U.S.C. § 1252 . We review for substantial evidence factual determinations concerning a petitioner’s eligibility for asylum, and must uphold them unless the evidence compels a contrary result. INS v. Elias-Zacarias, 502 U.S. 478 , 481 & n. 1, 112 S.Ct. 812 , 117 L.Ed.2d 38 (1992). We deny the petition.

Suarez testified that in approximately 1985, he was harassed and beaten by members of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (“PRI”) because his family supported the National Action Party (“PAN”). He also testified that although his father and brothers have been threatened in the past by PRI members, they continue to reside unmolested in Mexico and remain politically active.

Contrary to Suarez’s contention, the record does not compel the conclusion that Suarez suffered past persecution or has a well-founded fear of future persecution based on any enumerated ground. Suarez was beaten only once and…