Bolanos Ortiz v. Holder

MEMORANDUM **

Sonia Ninette Bolanos Ortiz and her son, natives and citizens of Guatemala, petition for review of the Board of Immigration Appeals’ 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”). We have jurisdiction under 8 U.S.C. § 1252 . We review for substantial evidence, Lim v. INS, 224 F.3d 929, 933 (9th Cir.2000), and we deny the petition for review.

*899 Substantial evidence supports the IJ’s finding that the threatening letters, the visit by the military to lead petitioner’s home, and the loss of lead petitioner’s job did not amount to past persecution. See id. at 936-37 . Further, substantial evidence supports the IJ’s finding that petitioners did not demonstrate a well-founded fear of future persecution based on the length of time since lead petitioner left Guatemala and evidence of country conditions in the record. See Molina-Estrada v. INS, 293 F.3d 1089, 1095-96 (9th Cir.2002) (When a petitioner has not established past persecution, the agency may “rely on all relevant evidence in the record, including a State Department…