Grijalva

MEMORANDUM **

Julio Amado Rodriguez Grijalva, a native and citizen of Guatemala, petitions for review of the Board of Immigration Appeals’ (“BIA”) summary affirmance of an immigration judge’s (“IJ”) order denying him asylum and withholding of removal. We have jurisdiction under 8 U.S.C. § 1252 . We review for substantial evidence. Pedro-Mateo v. INS, 224 F.3d 1147, 1150 (9th Cir.2000). We deny the petition for review.

Substantial evidence supports the IJ’s conclusion that vague threats made to petitioner did not constitute past persecution. See Lim v. INS, 224 F.3d 929, 936 (9th Cir.2000) (“Our court generally treats unfulfilled threats, without more, as within that category of conduct indicative of a danger of future persecution, rather than as past persecution itself.”).

Substantial evidence also supports the IJ’s determination that petitioner failed to *109 establish the requisite well-founded fear of future persecution in Guatemala. Petitioner failed to show he was threatened on account of his political opinion. See Pedro-Mateo, 224 F.3d at 1151 (“organization’s attempts to force a person to join them is insufficient to compel a finding of persecution on account of…