In Re the Marriage of Mindy Sue Washburn and Jamie Allen Carleton Washburn Upon the Petition of Mindy Sue Washburn, and Concerning Jamie Allen Carleton Washburn

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• holding that, under the substantial evidence standard, this court will only reverse a BIA ruling if the evidence not only supports a contrary conclusion but compels it
• noting that fear of future persecution was undermined by the applicant’s family residing unharmed in the country
• affirming denial of asylum based solely on petitioner’s failure to show past persecution or well-founded fear of future persecution
• finding no past persecution where petitioner’s family disappeared, petitioner was cut off in a vehicle on the roadway, and petitioner received a phone call threatening “the same thing” would happen to her
• “the reasonableness of a fear -3- of persecution is diminished when family members remain in the native country unharmed, and the applicant himself has not been singled out for abuse”
• persecution is an “extreme concept” that excludes “low- level intimidation and harassment” (citation omitted)

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