Carreon

MEMORANDUM **

Petitioner Josefina Carreon (“Carreon”), a 35-year-old native and citizen of the Philippines, petitions pro se for review of a Board of Immigration Appeals (“BIA”) final order denying her application for asylum and withholding of deportation. We deny the petition for review.

DISCUSSION

Because the BIA affirmed without opinion, we review the Immigration Judge’s (“IJ’s”) decision, as the final agency determination, for substantial evidence. See Narayan v. Ashcroft, 384 F.3d 1065, 1067 (9th Cir.2004). “Under this standard, ‘a petitioner contending that the [IJ]’s findings are erroneous must establish that the evidence not only supports that conclusion, but compels it.’ ” Id. (quoting Ghaly v. INS, 58 F.3d 1425, 1431 (9th Cir.1995)).

Carreon testified in support of her requests for relief that the New People’s Army (“NPA”), a communist guerilla organization in the Philippines, attempted to recruit her because of her nursing skills. Carreon explained that she had feared the NPA since childhood, when the NPA allegedly stole property from her home and harassed her family. The NPA purportedly continued to target Carreon in high school and in college. Although Carreon has…