Villeda-Medina

MEMORANDUM ***

Pedro Enrique Villeda-Medina and Maritza Nohelia Alarcon-Gomez, husband and wife, and natives and citizens of Guatemala, petition pro se for review of the Board of Immigration Appeals’ (BIA) order affirming the Immigration Judge’s (IJ) decision denying Villeda-Medina’s applications for asylum, withholding of deportation, and Convention Against Torture (CAT) relief; and Alarcon-Gomez’s application for CAT relief. To the extent we have jurisdiction, it is under 8 U.S.C. § 1252 . We review for substantial evidence, Zhou v. Gonzales, 437 F.3d 860, 871 (9th Cir.2006), and we dismiss in part and deny in part the petition for review.

We lack jurisdiction to review the IJ’s determination that Villeda-Medina is ineligible to apply for relief under the Nicaraguan Adjustment and Central American Relief Act (“NACARA”). See NACARA, Pub.L. No. 105-100, 111 Stat. 2160, 2196 (1997) (“A determination by the Attorney General as to whether the status of any alien should be adjusted under this section is final and shall not be subject to review by any court.”).

Substantial evidence supports the IJ’s denial of asylum because the record does not compel the conclusion that…