Raymundo

MEMORANDUM **

Erlinda Esta Raymundo, a native and citizen of the Philippines, petitions for review of the Board of Immigration Appeals’ (“BIA”) affirmance without opinion of an Immigration Judge’s (“IJ”) denial of her applications for asylum and withholding of removal. We have jurisdiction under 8 U.S.C. § 1252 . We deny the petition for review.

The IJ, the government contends, made an adverse credibility finding before also finding Raymundo ineligible for asylum and withholding on the merits of her applications. We need not decide whether the IJ disbelieved various aspects of Raymundo’s testimony because, even accepting it as credible, she has not demonstrated that a reasonable factfinder would be compelled to reach a contrary result on the merits. See Lata v. INS, 204 F.3d 1241, 1244-45 (9th Cir.2000).

The incidents about which Raymundo complains—principally nonviolent interference with her church attendance by family members, Catholic priests, and other non-governmental actors—do not rise to the level of persecution. See Nagoulko v. INS, 333 F.3d 1012, 1016 (9th Cir.2003) (“There is no doubt that Nagoulko was teased, bothered, discriminated against, and harassed because of…