Santillana-Melendez

MEMORANDUM **

Alex Oswaldo Santillana-Melendez, a native and citizen of El Salvador, petitions for review of the Board of Immigration Appeals’ (“BIA”) order dismissing his appeal from an immigration judge’s (“IJ”) decision denying asylum and withholding of removal. We review for substantial evidence the factual findings underlying the denial of asylum and withholding. Ramos-Vasquez v. INS, 57 F.3d 857, 861 (9th Cir.1995). We deny the petition for review.

The IJ’s finding that Santillana-Melen-dez failed to establish past persecution is supported by substantial evidence where he received only one anonymous telephone threat of kidnapping and was never physically harmed. See Lim v. INS, 224 F.3d 929, 936-37 (9th Cir.2000).

The agency’s finding that SantillanaMelendez failed to show a well-founded fear of persecution is supported by substantial evidence where Santillana-Melendez did not report the single threat of kidnapping to the police and did not show that the government is unwilling or unable to control the anonymous would-be kidnappers. See Ornelas-Chavez v. Gonzales, 458 F.3d 1052, 1058 (9th Cir.2006) (persecution need not be reported if alien can “convincingly establish”…