Delgado

MEMORANDUM *

Petitioner Glendy Delgado petitions for review of the Board of Immigration Appeals’ (“BIA”) affirmance of the Immigration Judge’s (“IJ”) denial of her applications for asylum, withholding of removal, and protection under the Convention Against Torture (“CAT”). We deny the petition.

Where, as here, the BIA expresses no disagreement with any part of the IJ’s decision, but instead cites Matter of Burbano, 20 I. & N. Dec. 872, 874 (BIA 1994), the BIA adopts the IJ’s decision in its entirety, see Abebe v. Gonzales, 432 F.3d 1037, 1040-41 (9th Cir.2005) (en banc), and the court reviews the IJ’s reasons as the BIA’s, see Ahmed v. Holder, 569 F.3d 1009, 1011-12 (9th Cir.2009). This court reviews “questions of law de novo, and findings of fact for substantial evidence.” Id.

Although violence against family members may establish persecution, see Korablina v. INS, 158 F.3d 1038, 1043 (9th *777 Cir.1998), the violence must “create a pattern of persecution closely tied to the petitioner,” Arriaga-Barrientos v. INS, 937 F.2d 411, 414 (9th Cir.1991). Substantial evidence supports the BIA’s determination that Petitioner failed to establish past persecution based on guerilla…