Rivera-Fiorentini

MEMORANDUM **

Juan Armando Rivera-Fiorentini, his wife Dora Ana Vida-Rivera, and their daughter, Carolina (collectively Rivera), are natives and citizens of Peru. They petition for review of the summary affirmance by the Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA) of the denial of their applications for asylum, 8 U.S.C. § 1158 (a), and withholding of removal, 8 U.S.C. § 1231 (b)(3). As this is a streamlined case, we review the decision of the immigration judge (IJ). 8 C.F.R. § 1003.1 (a)(7); Al-Harbi v. INS, 242 F.3d 882, 887 (9th Cir.2001). We deny the petition.

We review the IJ’s decision to see if there is substantial evidence to support it. INS v. Elias-Zacarias, 502 U.S. 478, 483-84 , 112 S.Ct. 812 , 117 L.Ed.2d 38 (1992). “To reverse under the substantial evidence standard, the evidence must be so compelling that no reasonable factfinder could fail to find the facts were as the alien alleged.” Singh v. Reno, 113 F.3d 1512, 1514 (9th Cir.1997).

Rivera argues that the IJ improperly based his determination on the lack of a clear connection between the soccer game fight in 1989 and later threats that Rivera received, because the telephone threat that Rivera was needed by “Sendero” was…