Court Opinion

ID: 8420674
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-11-03 20:42:31.418909+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T16:48:23.640739
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MEMORANDUM**
Hilda Elizabeth Vivar-Martinez, a native and citizen of Guatemala, petitions *246for review of the Board of Immigration Appeals’ (“BIA”) order affirming an immigration judge’s decision denying her application for asylum and withholding of removal. We have jurisdiction under 8 U.S.C. § 1252. We review for substantial evidence factual determinations concerning a petitioner’s eligibility for asylum, and must uphold them unless the evidence compels a contrary result. INS v. Elias-Zacarias, 502 U.S. 478, 481 & n. 1, 112 S.Ct. 812, 117 L.Ed.2d 38 (1992). We deny the petition.
At her removal hearing, Vivar-Martinez testified that in 1989, guerrillas kidnaped her father and brother in an attempt to recruit them, killed her brother who tried to defend her father, and severely beat Vivar-Martinez. Vivar-Martinez provided no evidence, however, that the guerrillas’ were motivated by an enumerated ground. Accordingly, substantial evidence supports the BIA’s decision that Vivar-Martinez failed to establish eligibility for asylum. See id. at 483-84 (holding that forced recruitment without more is insufficient to establish persecution on account of political opinion).
In failing to qualify for asylum, Vivar-Martinez, necessarily failed to satisfy the more stringent standard or withholding of removal. See Ghaly v. INS, 58 F.3d 1425, 1429 (9th Cir.1995).
PETITION FOR REVIEW DENIED.

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