Carvalho

MEMORANDUM **

Ladislau Ribeiro Carvalho, a native and citizen of Brazil, petitions for review of the Board of Immigration Appeals’ summary affirmance of an immigration judge’s denial of his applications for asylum, withholding of removal, and relief under the Convention Against Torture. He contends that he established a well-founded fear of persecution and a clear probability of persecution in Brazil on account of his and his *755 father’s membership in a particular social group of owners of property in an area subject to squatting. We have jurisdiction under 8 U.S.C. § 1252 , and we review for substantial evidence. See Hoxha v. Ashcroft, 319 F.3d 1179 , 1181 n. 4 (9th Cir.2003). We deny the petition for review.

Petitioner testified that members of the MST, or Movement of the Landless, a land rights organization, had threatened to take over a farm recently purchased by his father and that he would have to defend the farm by force of arms if he returned to Brazil. His father twice complained to the police, but they did nothing. Petitioner testified that nearby farms actually had been taken over. He also testified and presented documentary evidence that police were attempting to…