Santos

MEMORANDUM **

Mark Santos, a native and citizen of the Philippines, petitions for review of the Board of Immigration Appeals’ summary affirmance of 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. See Lata v. INS, 204 F.3d 1241, 1244 (9th Cir.2000) (“[T]he IJ’s determination that an alien is not eligible for asylum must be upheld if supported by reasonable, substantial, and probative evidence in the record.”).

Santos argues that he has demonstrated a well-founded fear of persecution. An alien must “point[ ] to credible, direct, and specific evidence in the record ... that would support [an objectively] reasonable fear of persecution.” Singh v. INS, 134 F.3d 962, 966 (9th Cir.1998) (quotation marks and citation omitted). In this case, substantial evidence supports the IJ’s conclusion that the threatening letter of unknown provenance on which Santos’s claim is based does not suffice to establish a well-founded fear of persecution. See Rostomian v. INS, 210 F.3d 1088, 1089 (9th Cir.2000) (“[A] petition must be denied unless the evidence [is] so…