to establish eligibility for asylum or withholding of removal. As to past persecution, Weng-Chen testified that three police officers came to his home to arrest his father for being a Falun Gong member, destroyed his family’s furniture, and threatened to impose a fine when they learned that his father was not present. He claimed that after one police officer slapped his mother’s face because she was arguing with them, he pushed that officer and he “fell to the ground.” Weng-Chen indicated that when the police attempted to arrest him, neighbors helped him to escape. Under these circumstances, the. agency did not err in finding that Weng-Chen failed to establish that his experiences amounted to past persecution. See Ivanishvili v. U.S. Dep’t of Justice, 433 F.3d 332, 341 (2d Cir.2006) (<HOLDING>); Ai Feng Yuan v. U.S. Dep’t of Justice, 416
holding that the harm must be sufficiently severe rising above mere harassment holding that to constitute persecution the harm must be sufficiently severe rising above mere harassment holding that persecution must rise above unpleasantness harassment and even basic suffering holding that the harm must rise above mere harassment holding that harm must be sufficiently severe rising above mere harassment to constitute persecution