Melkonyan

MEMORANDUM **

Petitioner Anahit Melkonyan, a native and citizen of Armenia, was denied asylum, withholding of removal, and protection under the United Nations Convention Against Torture and Other forms of Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment. She seeks review of the denials of asylum and withholding only, and she also appeals the Board of Immigration Appeals’ (BIA) denial of a motion to reopen the case because of ineffective assistance of counsel.

1. As a result of her reports to local police and the health department about corruption at the orphanage where she worked as an auditor, Petitioner was threatened by a doctor and a warehouse worker (and one day hit by the latter) who were employed at the same facility. We review for substantial evidence the BIA’s finding that there was no nexus between the harm suffered and a statutorily protected ground and may reverse only if the evidence compels the opposite result. Mamouzian v. Ashcroft, 890 F.3d 1129 , 1138 (9th Cir.2004). The BIA found that the orphanage was not “inextricably intertwined with governmental operation,” *194 which we understand to mean that corruption at the orphanage was private, rather than…