Sanchez-Cabrera

MEMORANDUM ***

Jorge Alehandro Sanehez-Cabrera and his wife, Modesta Robledo-Lopez, are Mexican citizens who petition for review of a final order of removal from the United States by the Board of Immigration Appeals (“BIA”). We have jurisdiction under 8 U.S.C. § 1252 , and we deny the petitions.

Since the BIA summarily affirmed the determination of the Immigration Judge (“IJ”) to deny petitioners’ applications for asylum, withholding of removal, and relief under the Convention Against Torture, we review the IJ’s ruling under the substan *513 tial evidence standard. Halaim v. INS, 358 F.3d 1128, 1131 (9th Cir.2004); Bellout v. Ashcroft, 363 F.3d 975 , 977 & 979, 2004 U.S.App. LEXIS 7032, at *5 and *11 (9th Cir.2004). We may not alter that ruling unless the evidence would compel a reasonable fact-finder to reach a different conclusion. Halaim, 358 F.3d at 1131 .

Viewing petitioners’ testimony as credible, a determination which we accept, see id., the IJ nonetheless denied their applications for asylum. The IJ found nothing to confirm petitioners’ hunch that the men who threatened them were police officers, and insufficient proof that petitioners’ fear of persecution in Mexico was…