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Esperanza CONTRERAS-MANRIQUE, Petitioner, v. Michael B. MUKASEY, Attorney General, Respondent.
    No. 04-74988.
    United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.
    Submitted July 16, 2008.
    
    Filed July 22, 2008.
    Mary Baquero, Minneapolis, MN, for Petitioner.
    Ronald E. LeFevre, Chief Counsel, Office of the District Counsel, Department of Homeland Security, San Francisco, CA, Merri L. Hankins, Esq., DOJ-U.S. Department of Justice, Civil Div./Office of Immigration Lit., Washington, DC, for Respondent.
    Before: KOZINSKI, Chief Judge, FARRIS, Circuit Judge and PANNER, District Judge.
    
      
       The panel unanimously finds this case suitable for decision without oral argument. See Fed. R.App. P. 34(a)(2).
    
    
      
      The Honorable Owen Panner, United States District Judge for the District of Oregon, sitting by designation.
    
   MEMORANDUM

Petitioner doesn’t qualify for asylum because a reasonable trier of fact would not have been compelled to find that she has suffered, or would suffer, harm on account of an actual or imputed political opinion. See Sangha v. INS, 103 F.3d 1482, 1486-87 (9th Cir.1997). Petitioner also didn’t demonstrate that it’s more likely than not she would be persecuted if deported, so she isn’t eligible for withholding of removal. See INS v. Cardozar-Fonseca, 480 U.S. 421, 430-31, 107 S.Ct. 1207, 94 L.Ed.2d 434 (1987). And since torture is even more extreme than persecution, petitioner’s Convention Against Torture claim fails as well. See Silaya v. Mukasey, 524 F.3d 1066, 1073 (9th Cir.2008).

PETITION DENIED. 
      
       This disposition is not appropriate for publication and is not precedent except as provided by 9 th Cir. R. 36-3.