Villafranco-Alas

MEMORANDUM **

Consuelo Yanet Villafranco-Alas and her sister Sandra Elizabeth Villafranco-Alas, natives and citizens of El Salvador, *969 petition pro se for review of the Board of Immigration Appeals’ (“BIA”) order dismissing their appeal from an immigration judge’s (“IJ”) decision denying their application for asylum, withholding of removal and relief under the Convention Against Torture (“CAT”). Our jurisdiction is governed by 8 U.S.C. § 1252 . Reviewing for substantial evidence, see Zehatye v. Gonzales, 453 F.3d 1182, 1184-85 (9th Cir.2006), we deny in part and dismiss in part the petition for review.

The court lacks jurisdiction to review the BIA’s denial of a request for administrative closure. See Diaz-Covarrubias v. Mukasey, 551 F.3d 1114, 1120 (9th Cir.2009).

Substantial evidence supports the IJ’s finding that petitioners have not demonstrated past persecution on account of family membership, because the lack of detailed or specific evidence surrounding the threats they received and the much earlier death of their grandfather does not “create a pattern of persecution closely tied to the petitioner[s].” See Arriaga-Barrientos v. INS, 937 F.2d 411, 414 (9th Cir.1991).…