Sead

ORDER

The panel has considered the petition for rehearing. The memorandum disposition filed on October 30, 2006, is hereby withdrawn and a new memorandum disposition is filed concurrently with this order. The petition for rehearing is otherwise denied. No further petition for rehearing will be considered.

MEMORANDUM ***

Seada Yousuf Sead, a native and citizen of Ethiopia, sought asylum, withholding of *690 removal, and relief under the Convention Against Torture (“CAT”) based on her fear of persecution in Ethiopia because she is of Eritrean descent. The Board of Immigration Appeals (“BIA”) found that she had not made the requisite showing of persecution and denied her relief. We in turn deny Sead’s petition for review because the record does not compel a different conclusion.

A.

Sead left Ethiopia in 1992 and went to Saudi Arabia. She entered the United States in June 1998 on an Ethiopian passport as a non-immigrant visitor with permission to remain in the country until the end of December 1998. Sead did not leave the country, and on January 2, 2001, a Notice to Appear issued charging her with removability. At the hearing held before an Immigration Judge (“IJ”) in March 2002,…