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WENQIANG XU, Petitioner, v. Loretta E. LYNCH, Attorney General, Respondent.
    No. 12-73428
    United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.
    Submitted August 16, 2016 
    
    Filed August 24, 2016
    Conrad Gregory Badar, Badar Law Group, San Gabriel, CA, Wenqiang Xu, Monterey Park, CA, Pro Se.
    Yamileth G. Davila, Trial Attorney, Daniel Eric Goldman, Senior Litigation Counsel, OIL, Washington, DC, Chief Counsel ICE, San Francisco, CA.
    Before: O’SCANNLAIN, LEAVY, and CLIFTON, Circuit Judges.
    
      
       The panel unanimously concludes this case is suitable for decision without oral argument. See Fed. R. App. P. 34(a)(2).
    
   MEMORANDUM

Wenqiang Xu, a native and citizen of China, petitions for review of the Board of Immigration Appeals’ (“BIA”) order dismissing his appeal from an immigration judge’s decision denying his application for asylum, withholding of removal, and protection under the Convention Against Torture (“CAT”). We have jurisdiction under 8 U.S.C. § 1252. We review for substantial evidence the agency’s factual findings. Zehatye v. Gonzales, 453 F.3d 1182, 1184-85 (9th Cir. 2006). We deny the petition for review.

We do not consider new evidence that was not part of the record before the agency. See Fisher v. INS, 79 F.3d 955, 963-64 (9th Cir. 1996) (en banc).

The record does not compel the conclusion that the mistreatment Xu suffered in China rose to the level of past persecution. See Gu v. Gonzales, 454 F.3d 1014, 1019-21 (9th Cir. 2006) (arrest, beating, interrogation, and three-day detention for illegal house church activity did not rise to the level of persecution); see also INS v. Elias-Zacarias, 502 U.S. 478, 481 n. 1, 112 S.Ct. 812, 117 L.Ed.2d 38 (1992) (“[t]o reverse the BIA finding [the court] must find that the evidence not only supports that conclusion, but compels it”) (emphasis in original). Substantial evidence supports the agency’s determination that Xu did not establish a well-founded fear of future persecution. See id. at 1021-22; Hakeem v. INS, 278 F.3d 812, 816 (9th Cir. 2001) (claim of future persecution weakened when similarly-situated family members continue to live in the country without incident). Thus, we deny the petition as to Xu’s asylum claim.

Because Xu did not establish eligibility for asylum, his withholding of removal claim necessarily fails. See Zehatye, 453 F.3d at 1190.

Finally, substantial evidence supports the agency’s denial of CAT relief because Xu failed to establish that he would more likely than not be tortured by or with the consent or acquiescence of a government official if returned to China. See Zheng v. Holder, 644 F.3d 829, 835-36 (9th Cir. 2011).

PETITION FOR REVIEW DENIED. 
      
       This disposition is not appropriate for publication and is not precedent except as provided by Ninth Circuit Rule 36-3.