Sanchez

MEMORANDUM **

Lead petitioner Carlos Julio Sanchez and his family, natives and citizens of Colombia, petition for review of an order of the Board of Immigration Appeals (“BIA”) affirming, without opinion, an immigration judge’s (“IJ”) order denying their application for asylum. We have jurisdiction pursuant to 8 U.S.C. § 1252 . Reviewing for substantial evidence, see Ochoa v. Gonzales, 406 F.3d 1166, 1169 (9th Cir.2005), we deny the petition for review.

Substantial evidence supports the IJ’s determination that Sanchez failed to establish a well-founded fear of persecution on account of a protected ground. Sanchez’s contention that he fears persecution based on his refusal to cooperate with narcotraffickers is without merit. See id. at 1172 (finding “no evidence that the narcotraffickers imputed political beliefs” to petitioner, who resisted pressure by narcotraffickers to participate in a money laundering scheme).

Moreover, even if we were compelled to find that Sanchez had established a nexus to a protected ground, substantial evidence supports the IJ’s determination that Sanchez failed to establish even a ten percent chance of persecution on that basis. As the IJ noted,…