Carrillo

MEMORANDUM **

Irma Cruz Carrillo, a native and citizen of Guatemala, petitions pro se for review of the Board of Immigration Appeals’ (“BIA”) summary affirmance of an Immigration Judge’s (“IJ”) denial of asylum, withholding of removal, and relief under the Convention Against Torture (“CAT”). We have jurisdiction pursuant to 8 U.S.C. § 1252 (b). We review for substantial evidence and will reverse the BIA’s determination only if the petitioner shows that the evidence compels such a result. Sangha v. INS, 103 F.3d 1482, 1487 (9th Cir.1997). We deny the petition.

The veiled threats and the anonymous letter Cruz Carrillo received did not amount to persecution because they were not “so menacing as to cause significant actual suffering or harm.” Lim v. INS, 224 F.3d 929, 936 (9th Cir.2000) (holding that threats standing alone generally do not constitute past persecution) (internal quotations omitted); see also Nagoulko v. INS, 333 F.3d 1012, 1016-17 (9th Cir.2003) *472 (concluding that verbal threats and harassment in the absence of any physical violence or harm did not amount to persecution).

Further, even if such threats alone amounted to persecution, there is nothing in the record…