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Emma Estrella Luna POLIT, Petitioner, v. Alberto R. GONZALES, Attorney General, Respondent.
    No. 04-72899.
    United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.
    Submitted April 5, 2006.
    
    Decided April 11, 2006.
    Susan E. Hill, Hill & Piibe, Los Angeles, CA, for Petitioner.
    Regional Counsel, Western Region Immigration & Naturalization Service, Laguna Niguel, CA, Ronald E. LeFevre, Chief Legal Officer, Office of the District Counsel, San Francisco, CA, Hillel Smith, DOJ—U.S. Department of Justice, Washington, DC, for Respondent.
    Before: HAWKINS, MCKEOWN, and PAEZ, Circuit Judges.
    
      
       This panel unanimously finds this case suitable for decision without oral argument. See Fed. R.App. P. 34(a)(2).
    
   MEMORANDUM

Emma Estrella Luna Polit, a native and citizen of Ecuador, petitions for review of the final order of the Board of Immigration Appeals (“BIA”) affirming and adopting the immigration judge’s (“IJ”) decision denying her applications for asylum, withholding of removal, and relief under the Convention Against Torture. We have jurisdiction under 8 U.S.C. § 1252. Reviewing for substantial evidence, see Cordon-Garcia v. INS, 204 F.3d 985, 990 (9th Cir.2000), we deny the petition.

The BIA declined to adopt the IJ’s adverse credibility finding, but affirmed the IJ’s conclusion that Polit did not meet her burden of proving eligibility for asylum. Polit did not adduce evidence sufficient to compel a finding of past persecution or a well-founded fear of future persecution based on enumerated grounds. See Prasad v. INS, 47 F.3d 336, 339-40 (9th Cir. 1995).

Because Polit faded to prove eligibility for asylum, she necessarily failed to meet the more stringent standard for withholding of removal. See Al-Harbi v. INS, 242 F.3d 882, 888-89 (9th Cir.2001). Polit also failed to establish that she is entitled to relief under the Convention Against Torture because she did not show that it was more likely than not that she would be tortured if she returned to Ecuador. See 8 C.F.R. § 208.16(c)(2) (2004). Accordingly, we deny the petition for review.

PETITION FOR REVIEW DENIED. 
      
       This disposition is not appropriate for publication and may not be cited to or by the courts of this circuit except as provided by 9th Cir. R. 36-3.