Mazariegos Zacarias v. Gonzales

MEMORANDUM **

Alma Beatriz Mazariegos Zacarias, a native and citizen of Guatemala, petitions for review of an order of the Board of Immigration Appeals affirming, without opinion, an immigration judge’s (“IJ”) decision denying her application for asylum. We have jurisdiction pursuant to 8 U.S.C. § 1252 . Reviewing for substantial evidence, Lim v. INS, 224 F.3d 929, 933 (9th Cir.2000), we deny the petition for review.

Substantial evidence supports the IJ’s determination that Mazariegos Zacarias did not establish past persecution or a well-founded fear of future persecution because, as the IJ noted, Mazariegos Zacarias remained in Guatemala unharmed for several years after she and her mother were threatened by guerrillas. See id. at 936 (holding that “[t]hreats standing alone ... constitute past persecution in only a small category of cases, and only when the threats are so menacing as to cause significant actual ‘suffering or harm’ ”) (citation omitted); Lata v. INS, 204 F.3d 1241, 1245 (9th Cir.2000) (concluding that petitioner did not establish past persecution or a well-founded fear of future persecution where she remained in Fiji for approximately two years after isolated…