Case Name: Maria Laura LASTOR-TOJ, Petitioner, v. Jefferson B. SESSIONS, III,1 Attorney General of the United States, Respondent
Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 2017-08-03
Citations: 694 F. App'x 461
Docket Number: No. 16-3681
Parties: Maria Laura LASTOR-TOJ, Petitioner, v. Jefferson B. SESSIONS, III, Attorney General of the United States, Respondent.
Judges: Before COLLOTON, MURPHY, and KELLY, Circuit Judges.
Reporter: West's Federal Appendix
Volume: 694
Pages: 461–462

Head Matter:
Maria Laura LASTOR-TOJ, Petitioner, v. Jefferson B. SESSIONS, III, Attorney General of the United States, Respondent.
No. 16-3681
United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.
Submitted: July 31, 2017
Filed: August 3, 2017
Daniel Scott Reeker, Kendall Law Office, Omaha, NE, for Petitioner
Karen Yolanda Drummond, Carl H. McIntyre, Gregory A. Pennington, Jr., Robert Dale Tennyson, Jr., U.S. Department of Justice, Civil Division, Office of Immigration Litigation, Washington, DC, Oil, U.S. Department of Justice, Washington, DC, for Respondent
Before COLLOTON, MURPHY, and KELLY, Circuit Judges.
. Jefferson B. Sessions, III has been appointed to serve as Attorney General of the United States, and is substituted as respondent pursuant to Federal Rule of Appellate Procedure 43(c).

Opinion:
PER CURIAM.
Guatemalan citizen Maria Laura Lastor-Toj petitions for review of an order of the Board of Immigration Appeals dismissing her appeal from the decision of an immigration judge denying her asylum and withholding of removal. Upon careful review, we conclude that substantial evidence supports the agency's underlying determinations that (1) the discrimination and harassment Lastor-Toj suffered in Guatemala did not rise to the level of past persecution by persons whom the Guatemalan government was unwilling or unable to control; and (2) Lastor-Toj failed to prove a well-founded fear of future persecution in Guatemala. See Makatengkeng v. Gonzales, 495 F.3d 876, 885 (8th Cir. 2007).
The petition for review is denied. See 8th Cir. R. 47B.
. Lastor-Toj does not challenge the denial of . her request for protection under the Convention Against Torture.