Funez

MEMORANDUM **

Tomas Amilcar Funez, a native and a citizen of Honduras, petitions for review of a decision of the Board of Immigration *934 Appeals, affirming without opinion the immigration judge’s (“IJ”) denial of asylum and withholding of removal. We have jurisdiction pursuant to 8 U.S.C. § 1252 (a). Pursuant to 8 C.F.R. § 1003.1 (e)(4)(ii) we review the IJ’s order as the final agency decision. See Falcon Carriche v. Ashcroft, 350 F.3d 845, 849 (9th Cir.2003). We review for substantial evidence the IJ’s determination that Funez failed to establish a well-founded fear of future persecution, see Andriasian v. INS, 180 F.3d 1033, 1040 (9th Cir.1999), and we deny Funez’s petition for review.

Substantial evidence supports the IJ’s determination that Funez does not possess a well-founded fear of future persecution because his friends and family continue to live unmolested in Honduras, see Hakeem, v. INS, 273 F.3d 812, 816 (9th Cir.2001), and he failed to show the government would not protect him, see Singh v. INS, 134 F.3d 962 , 967 n. 9 (9th Cir.1998), or that he could not safely and reasonably relocate within Honduras, see Melkonian v. Ashcroft, 320 F.3d 1061, 1069 (9th…