Yonemura

MEMORANDUM **

Pedro Yonemura, a native and citizen of Peru, petitions for review of the Board of Immigration Appeals’ order summarily affirming, without opinion, an immigration judge’s (“U”) order denying his applications for asylum, withholding of removal, and relief under the Convention Against Torture (“CAT”). 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 Yonemura failed to establish eligibility for asylum. Yonemura, a businessman of Japanese descent, testified that he received threatening phone calls from the Shining Path demanding that he pay protection money. Yonemura also testified that after he refused to pay the money, the Shining Path exploded a bomb at his place of business. Neither his testimony, nor any other evidence in the record, compels the conclusion that these criminal acts occurred, even in part, on account of political opinion, social group, ethnicity, or any other protected ground. See id. at 1177 (upholding agency determination where…