Singh

MEMORANDUM **

Mahendra Singh, his wife, Gian Kaur, and their daughter, Praveen Kaur, natives and citizens of Fiji, petition for review of the Board of Immigration Appeals’ (“BIA”) affirmance of an Immigration Judge’s (“IJ”) denial of their applications for asylum, withholding of deportation, and for relief under the Convention Against Torture (“CAT”). We review the IJ’s and BIA’s decision for substantial evidence. INS v. Elias-Zacarias, 502 U.S. 478, 481 , 112 S.Ct. 812 , 117 L.Ed.2d 38 (1992). We deny in part and dismiss in part the petition for review.

Substantial evidence supports the IJ’s and BIA’s decision that petitioners failed to establish past persecution or a well-founded fear of future persecution based on an enumerated ground. Because petitioners failed to present evidence compelling the conclusion that any mistreatment that they may have experienced was based on an enumerated ground, petitioners fail to establish eligibility for asylum. See id. Accordingly, we deny the petition on the asylum claim.

Petitioners failed to exhaust their withholding of deportation and CAT claims before the BIA, and therefore we lack jurisdiction to consider these claims. See Barron v.…