Notario

MEMORANDUM ***

Petitioners Estela Cudal Notario and Adelito Notario, natives and citizens of the Philippines, petition for review of the Board of Immigration Appeals’ (“BIA”) denial of their applications for asylum and withholding of removal. We have jurisdiction under 8 U.S.C. § 1252 and deny the petitions.

The BIA affirmed, without opinion, the Immigration Judge’s (“U”) decision. We review the IJ’s decision as the final agency action. Avendano-Ramirez v. Ashcroft, 365 F.3d 813, 815 (9th Cir.2004). We review factual determinations of the IJ for substantial evidence, and legal determinations de novo, “but with considerable deference.” Id.

Substantial evidence supports the IJ’s determination that the petitioner Estela Cudal Notario 1 failed to establish persecution on account of a protected ground. See INS v. Elias-Zacharias, 502 U.S. 478, 482-83 , 112 S.Ct. 812 , 117 L.Ed.2d 38 (1992); cf. Deloso v. Ashcroft, 393 F.3d 858, 861 (9th Cir.2005) (explaining that reversal in a mixed-motives case is proper if the evidence “compels the conclusion that the [persecution was] at least in part on account of [petitioner’s] political opinion”). The petitioner did not indicate a political…