Case Name: Esperanza CARDONA-ARANA; Oldin Edilsa Garcia-Cardona; Azucely Noemi Garcia-Cardona, Petitioners, v. Eric H. HOLDER, Jr., Attorney General of the United States, Respondent
Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 2012-03-01
Citations: 451 F. App'x 607
Docket Number: No. 11-2668
Parties: Esperanza CARDONA-ARANA; Oldin Edilsa Garcia-Cardona; Azucely Noemi Garcia-Cardona, Petitioners, v. Eric H. HOLDER, Jr., Attorney General of the United States, Respondent.
Judges: Before WOLLMAN, MELLOY, and SMITH, Circuit Judges.
Reporter: West's Federal Appendix
Volume: 451
Pages: 607–608

Head Matter:
Esperanza CARDONA-ARANA; Oldin Edilsa Garcia-Cardona; Azucely Noemi Garcia-Cardona, Petitioners, v. Eric H. HOLDER, Jr., Attorney General of the United States, Respondent.
No. 11-2668.
United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.
Submitted: Feb. 28, 2012.
Filed: March 1, 2012.
Jason M. Finch, Smith & Gardner, Omaha, NE, for Petitioners.
Christopher Buchanan, Karen Yolanda Drummond, U.S. Department of Justice, Richard M. Evans, Assistant Director, Jennifer A. Singer, Washington, DC, for Respondent.
Before WOLLMAN, MELLOY, and SMITH, Circuit Judges.

Opinion:
PER CURIAM.
Guatemalan citizens Esperanza Cardo-na-Arana and her daughters Oldin Edilsa Garcia-Cardona and Azucely Noemi Garcia-Cardona petition for review of an order of the Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA), which affirmed an immigration judge's denial of their application for asylum. We conclude that substantial evidence supports the BIA's determinations that petitioners had not sufficiently established past persecution or a well-founded fear of future persecution. See Malonga v. Holder, 621 F.3d 757, 766 (8th Cir.2010) (threats that are non-specific or lacking in immediacy do not support finding of persecution; harm arising from general conditions such as civil war or mob violence will not ordinarily support claim of persecution); Cubillos v. Holder, 565 F.3d 1054, 1057-58 (8th Cir.2009) (threats in form of two anonymous phone calls and two anonymous letters over 4-year period, without more and in absence of evidence of who was responsible and their motives, were not sufficiently severe to constitute past persecution or to be objectively reasonable grounds for well-founded fear of future persecution); Khrystotodorov v. Mukasey, 551 F.3d 775, 781 (8th Cir.2008) (denial of asylum is reviewed for substantial evidence). In addition, we conclude that it is unnecessary to review the remaining issues raised by petitioners.
Accordingly, we deny the petition. See 8th Cir. R. 47B.
. Petitioners also requested withholding of removal, but no longer pursue that request. See Chay-Velasquez v. Ashcroft, 367 F.3d 751, 756 (8th Cir.2004) (appellant waives claim that is not meaningfully raised in opening brief).