Saldivar-Dominguez

MEMORANDUM **

Maria Del Carmen Saldivar-Dominguez, a native and citizen of Mexico, petitions for review from the Board of Immigration Appeals’ order dismissing her appeal from an immigration judge’s (“U”) denial of her application for withholding of removal. We have jurisdiction pursuant to 8 U.S.C. § 1252 . We review for substantial evidence, see Lata v. INS, 204 F.3d 1241, 1244 (9th Cir.2000), and we deny the petition.

Substantial evidence supports the BIA’s conclusion that petitioner failed to establish past persecution or a well-founded fear of future persecution on account of an enumerated ground. See INS v. Elias-Zacarias, 502 U.S. 478, 481 , 112 S.Ct. 812 , 117 L.Ed.2d 38 (1992). The BIA determined that threats of physical violence against petitioner’s sister and other Jehovah’s witnesses in Mexico did not amount to persecution because petitioner’s sister, and others petitioner mentioned, suffered no physical harm and were not detained. See Hoxha v. Ashcroft, 319 F.3d 1179, 1182 (9th Cir.2003) (describing persecution as something other than harassment). Notably, petitioner did not even become a Jehovah’s witness until after she entered the United States. Because…