Molina

MEMORANDUM *

Consuelo Cardona Molina; her husband, Roberto Dunoyer Mejia; and them two *648 children, Pablo Dunoyer Cardona and Camilo Dunoyer Cardona, all natives and citizens of Colombia, petition for review of a Board of Immigration Appeals’ (“BIA”) decision adopting and affirming the Immigration Judge’s (“IJ”) denial of their application for asylum, withholding of removal, and relief under the Convention Against Torture (“CAT”). To the extent we have jurisdiction under 8 U.S.C. § 1252 , we deny the petition for review.

Where the BIA adopts and affirms the IJ’s decision, we review the IJ’s decision as if it were that of the BIA. See Abebe v. Gonzales, 432 F.3d 1037, 1039 (9th Cir.2005) (en banc). We review the factual findings underlying denial of an asylum application for substantial evidence. See Li v. Ashcroft, 356 F.3d 1153, 1157 (9th Cir.2004) (en banc).

Here the petitioners claim that members of the Jaime Bateman Cayon Group, a leftist guerilla political organization in Colombia, attempted to extort money from them and threatened to kidnap their son, at least in part, because of their political opinion. Substantial evidence supports the IJ’s determination that the…