Melero-Carrasco

MEMORANDUM **

Rosa L. Melero-Carrasco, a native and citizen of Mexico, petitions for review of the Board of Immigration Appeals’ (“BIA”) order affirming the Immigration Judge’s decision denying her application for asylum and withholding of removal. *550 We have jurisdiction under 8 U.S.C. § 1252 . We review for substantial evidence, Nagoulko v. INS, 333 F.3d 1012, 1015 (9th Cir.2003), and we deny the petition for review.

Although Melero-Carrasco did not raise an asylum claim in her appeal to the BIA, we have jurisdiction to address her asylum claim because the BIA specifically addressed it in its decision. See Socop-Gonzalez v. INS, 272 F.3d 1176, 1186 (9th Cir.2001) (en banc).

Substantial evidence supports the BIA’s conclusion that Melero-Carrasco failed to establish that her father’s arguments with members of the PAN party and the occasional killing of livestock amount to past persecution. See Nagoulko, 333 F.3d at 1016 (persecution is “an extreme concept that does not include every sort of treatment our society regards as offensive”).

Moreover, the evidence of record does not compel a finding that Melero-Carrasco has a well-founded fear of persecution in Mexico. See INS v.…