Hernandez-Pedroza

MEMORANDUM **

Pablo Hernandez-Pedroza, a native and citizen of Mexico, petitions for review of the Board of Immigration Appeals’ (“BIA”) decision adopting and affirming an Immigration Judge’s (“IJ”) order denying asylum, withholding of removal, and relief under the Convention Against Torture *631 (“CAT”). We have jurisdiction under 8 U.S.C. § 1252 . We review for substantial evidence and will uphold the IJ’s decision unless the evidence compels a contrary conclusion. INS v. Elias-Zacarias, 502 U.S. 478, 481, 483-84 , 112 S.Ct. 812 , 117 L.Ed.2d 38 (1992). We deny the petition for review.

Substantial evidence supports the IJ’s conclusion that Hernandez-Pedroza did not establish past persecution or a well-founded fear of future persecution on account of an enumerated ground. Id. at 481 , 112 S.Ct. 812 . Hernandez-Pedroza failed to establish that the beating of his brother and the inquiry about HernandezPedroza by unknown individuals were connected to his Institutional Revolutionary Party (“PRI”) membership or his employment as a government bodyguard. See Sangha v. INS, 103 F.3d 1482, 1491 (9th Cir.1997) (concluding that petitioner failed to show that he faced problems on account…