Echeverria-Rodas
Echeverria-Rodas v. Gonzales
Opinion
Lead Opinion
MEMORANDUM **
Simeon Amado Echeverria-Rodas, a native and citizen of Guatemala, petitions pro se for review of the Board of Immigration Appeals’ (“BIA”) order summarily affirming, without opinion, his appeal from an immigration judge’s (“U”) order denying his applications for asylum, withholding of deportation, and suspension of deportation. To the extent we have jurisdiction, it is conferred by 8 U.S.C. § 1252 . Reviewing purely legal issues de novo, see Padilla-Padilla v. Gonzales, 463 F.3d 972, 975 (9th Cir.2006), and factual determinations for substantial evidence, see Nahrvani v. Gonzales, 399 F.3d 1148, 1151 (9th Cir.2005), we deny the petition for review in part, dismiss it in part, and grant it in part.
Echeverria-Rodas stated that he fled Guatemala after receiving an anonymous threatening letter in 1988. He testified that several coworkers were killed and that armed men entered his workplace at some point, but that he did not know who was responsible. Contrary to Echeverria-Rodas’ contentions, the evidence does not compel the conclusion that his mistreatment rose to the level of persecution, or that his fear of returning to Guatemala is objectively reasonable. See id.…