Krcelic

MEMORANDUM ***

Petitioner Sandra Krcelic, an ethnic Serb from Croatia, 1 appeals the Board of Immigration Appeals’ (“BIA”) decision affirming the immigration judge’s (“IJ”) denial of her application for asylum and withholding of removal. 2 We review for substantial evidence, INS v. Elias-Zacarias, 502 U.S. 478 , 481 n. 1, 112 S.Ct. 812 , 117 L.Ed.2d 38 (1992), and affirm.

1. The evidence does not compel a finding that Petitioner suffered past persecution. On two occasions in 1993, while Petitioner lived in Croatia with her family, bricks were thrown through the windows of the family’s home. The second time, people outside the house called her father a derogatory term for a Serb. Also in 1993, her family received three or four threatening phone calls in which the callers told her family to leave Croatia or they would be killed. Those acts do not rise to the level of persecution. See Gormley v. Ashcroft, 364 F.3d 1172, 1176 (9th Cir.2004) (noting that persecution is “an extreme concept that does not include every sort of treatment that our society regards as offensive” (internal quotation marks and brackets omitted)); Hoxha v. Ashcroft, 319 F.3d 1179, 1182 (9th Cir.2003) (holding…