Gamboa Najera v. Holder

MEMORANDUM **

Miguel Angel Gamboa Najera, his wife Elia Gamboa, and four of their children, petition for review of the Board of Immigration Appeals’ (“BIA”) decision summarily affirming the Immigration Judge’s (“IJ”) order denying their applications for asylum, withholding of removal, and relief under the Convention Against Torture (“CAT”). “We review the IJ’s findings of fact for substantial evidence and will uphold these findings if they are supported by ‘reasonable, substantial, and probative evidence on the record considered as a whole.’ ” Abebe v. Gonzales, 432 F.3d 1037, 1039-40 (9th Cir.2005) (quoting Me-jia-Paiz v. INS, 111 F.3d 720, 722 (9th Cir.1997)). We deny the petition for review.

Substantial evidence supports the IJ’s decision to deny asylum on the grounds that Gamboa Najera (1) failed to establish a nexus between his claims of persecution and a protected ground, (2) failed to establish that the Durango police were unwilling or unable to control the local gang which Gamboa-Najera feared, and (3) failed to establish that his subjective well-founded fear of persecution was objectively reasonable. See Navas v. INS, 217 F.3d 646, 656 (9th Cir.2000) (in order to…