Quijano-Rodriguez

MEMORANDUM ***

Maria Esperanza Quijano-Rodriguez, and her two minor daughters, Jennifer Jicel Bermudez-Quijano and Briyit Xiomara Bermudez-Quijano, each a native and citizen of Columbia, petition for review of the Board of Immigration Appeals’ order summarily affirming the immigration judge’s denial of their applications for asylum and withholding of removal, and for relief under the Convention Against Torture. We have jurisdiction pursuant to 8 U.S.C. § 1252 (a). Having reviewed the immigration judge’s factual findings for substantial evidence, INS v. Elias-Zacarias, 502 U.S. 478, 481 , 112 S.Ct. 812 , 117 L.Ed.2d 38 (1992), we deny the petition for review.

Substantial evidence supports the immigration judge’s determination that the sin *911 gle incident of verbal threats by FARC guerillas did not rise to the level of past persecution. See Li v. Ashcroft, 356 F.3d 1153, 1158 (9th Cir.2004) (en banc); see also Nahrvani v. Gonzales, 399 F.3d 1148, 1153 (9th Cir.2005) (citations omitted) (noting that “[a]lthough death threats against an individual may be sufficient to constitute persecution, most threats do not rise to the level of persecution,” and finding that serious threats,…