Rodriguez

MEMORANDUM **

Husband and wife, Jorge N. Rodriguez (“Rodriguez”), a native and citizen of Peru, and Nancy E. Valencia (‘Valencia”), a native of Ecuador and citizen of Peru, petition for review of the Board of Immigration Appeals’ order summarily affirming, without opinion, an immigration judge’s (“IJ”) order denying their applications for asylum and withholding of removal. We have jurisdiction pursuant to 8 U.S.C. § 1252 . We review for substantial evidence the IJ’s factual determinations, Gormley v. Ashcroft, 364 F.3d 1172, 1176 (9th Cir.2004), and we deny the petition for review.

Substantial evidence supports the IJ’s determination that the petitioners failed to establish eligibility for asylum. Rodriguez testified he demanded his tenant, a suspected narco-terrorist, vacate an apartment building, and shortly afterwards, Rodriguez and his family began receiving threatening phone calls from unidentified persons. Neither his testimony nor any other evidence in the record compels the conclusion that petitioners were persecuted or would be persecuted on account of their political opinion, social group, or any other protected ground. See Tecun-Florian v. INS, 207 F.3d 1107, 1109-10…