Pineiro

MEMORANDUM **

Jose Manuel Pineiro and his wife, Patricia Silvia Lico, natives and citizens of Argentina, petition pro se for review of a decision of the Board of Immigration Appeals (“BIA”) dismissing their appeal of an immigration judge’s denial of their applications for asylum and withholding of removal. We have jurisdiction under 8 U.S.C. § 1252 . We review for substantial evidence, Lata v. INS, 204 F.3d 1241, 1244 (9th Cir.2000), and we deny the petition for review.

The record does not compel the conclusion that Pineiro established past persecution or a well-founded fear of future persecution on account of political opinion. Pineiro testified that on three occasions in the 1970’s he was detained by military police, and on one of these occasions he was beaten because he was participating in a student demonstration against his high school. But Pineiro did not leave Argentina until 1990 and did not present any evidence of persecution in the intervening years. These “isolated incident[s], therefore, cannot alone support a contention of persecution.” See id. at 1245 (citing Prasad v. INS, 47 F.3d 336, 340 (9th Cir.1995)).

Similarly, the record does not compel the conclusion that…