Medina

MEMORANDUM **

Cecilia Amparo Alegría Medina, a native and citizen of Guatemala, petitions for review of the Board of Immigration Appeals’ (“BIA”) affirmance of an Immigration Judge’s denial of her applications for asylum and withholding of removal and for relief under the Convention Against Torture (“CAT”). We have jurisdiction under 8 U.S.C. § 1252 . We review the BIA’s decision for substantial evidence and may reverse only if the evidence compels such a result. INS v. Elias-Zacarias, 502 U.S. 478 , 481 n. 1, 112 S.Ct. 812 , 117 L.Ed.2d 38 (1992). We deny the petition for review.

*43 Substantial evidence supports the BIA’s finding that petitioner failed to establish past persecution or a well-founded fear of future persecution based on an enumerated ground. Because petitioner failed to present evidence compelling the conclusion that any mistreatment that she experienced was based on an enumerated ground, she fails to establish eligibility for asylum. See id. at 482-88 , 112 S.Ct. 812 .

Because petitioner failed to establish eligibility for asylum, it follows that she failed to establish eligibility for withholding of removal. See Singh-Kaur v. INS, 183 F.3d 1147, 1149 (9th…