Constantina Coloma De Leon, et al., Petitioners, v. Immigration and Naturalization Service, Respondent, 141 F.3d 1175 (9th Cir. 1998)

MEMORANDUM^* 

Constantina Coloma De Leon and her minor daughter Pauline De Leon petition for review of the Board of Immigration Appeals's decision affirming the immigration judge's denial of their request for asylum and withholding of deportation. We have jurisdiction pursuant to 8 U .S.C. § 1105a(a), and we deny the petition.

The facts are known to the parties, and we shall not repeat them here.

To obtain reversal of the Board's decision, a petitioner must show that "the evidence he presented was so compelling that no reasonable factfinder could fail to find the requisite fear of persecution" on account of race, religion, nationality, membership in a particular social group, or political opinion. INS v. Elias-Zacarias, 502 U.S. 478, 483-84, 112 S. Ct. 812, 117 L. Ed. 2d 38 (1992). Coloma De Leon has not discharged that burden. Substantial evidence supports the Board's determination that Coloma De Leon has neither suffered past persecution nor faces a well-founded fear of future persecution "on account of" her political opinions. Coloma De Leon was contacted by the New People's Army ("NPA") because of her financial resources. The record more than adequately supports the Board's conclusion that the NPA's targeting of Coloma De Leon was not motivated, even in part, by Coloma De Leon's political opinions. See id.; Borja v. INS, No. 97-70272, slip op. at ____ (9th Cir. March 20, 1998); Sangha v. INS, 103 F.3d 1482, 1490 (9th Cir. 1997).

DENIED.