Tsarevskaya

MEMORANDUM **

Nina Alexandrovna Tsarevskaya, a native and citizen of Uzbekistan, petitions for review of the Board of Immigration Appeals’ order dismissing her appeal from an immigration judge’s decision denying her application for asylum and withholding of removal. We have jurisdiction under 8 U.S.C. § 1252 . We review for substantial evidence, Zehatye v. Gonzales, 453 F.3d 1182, 1184-85 (9th Cir.2006), and we deny the petition for review.

Substantial evidence supports the agency’s conclusion that Tsarevskaya failed to establish eligibility for asylum because she did not demonstrate that the discrimination and harassment she suffered rose to the level of persecution, see Nagoulko v. INS, 333 F.3d 1012, 1016 (9th Cir.2003), or that the attack on her son occurred on account of a protected ground, see Sangha v. INS, 103 F.3d 1482, 1486-87 (9th Cir.1997). Substantial evidence also supports the agency’s determination that Tsarev-skaya failed to establish a well-founded fear of future persecution in Uzbekistan on account of her Russian ethnicity, or for any of the other statutorily enumerated grounds. See Gomes v. Gonzales, 429 F.3d 1264, 1267 (9th Cir.2005) (fear of future…