text:                                                                             FILED
                               NOT FOR PUBLICATION                            SEP 03 2015
  
                                                                           MOLLY C. DWYER, CLERK
                       UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS                       U.S. COURT OF APPEALS
  
  
  
                               FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT
  
  
  RAFAEL ANDRADE RIVAS, AKA                        No. 13-72638
  Rafael Rivas Andrade,
                                                   Agency No. A200-951-619
                 Petitioner,
  
   v.                                              MEMORANDUM*
  
  LORETTA E. LYNCH, Attorney General,
  
                 Respondent.
  
  
                        On Petition for Review of an Order of the
                            Board of Immigration Appeals
  
                               Submitted August 25, 2015**
  
  Before:        McKEOWN, CLIFTON, and HURWITZ, Circuit Judges.
  
        Rafael Andrade Rivas, a native and citizen of El Salvador, petitions pro se
  
  for review of the Board of Immigration Appeals’ (“BIA”) order dismissing his
  
  appeal from an immigration judge’s decision denying his application for asylum
  
  and withholding of removal. We have jurisdiction under 8 U.S.C. § 1252. We
  
            *
               This disposition is not appropriate for publication and is not precedent
  except as provided by 9th Cir. R. 36-3.
            **
               The panel unanimously concludes this case is suitable for decision
  without oral argument. See Fed. R. App. P. 34(a)(2).
  review for substantial evidence the agency’s factual findings, Silaya v. Mukasey,
  
  524 F.3d 1066, 1070 (9th Cir. 2008), and we deny the petition for review.
  
        Substantial evidence supports the BIA’s determination that Andrade Rivas
  
  failed to establish past persecution or a fear of future persecution on account of a
  
  protected ground based on threats to and extortion of his father by gang members
  
  in El Salvador. See Zetino v. Holder, 622 F.3d 1007, 1016 (9th Cir. 2010) (“An
  
  alien’s desire to be free from harassment by criminals motivated by theft or
  
  random violence by gang members bears no nexus to a protected ground.”); see
  
  also Parussimova v. Mukasey, 555 F.3d 734, 740 (9th Cir. 2009) (the REAL ID
  
  Act “requires that a protected ground represent ‘one central reason’ for an asylum
  
  applicant’s persecution”). Thus, Andrade Rivas’s asylum and withholding of
  
  removal claims fail. See Zetino, 622 F.3d at 1015-16.
  
        PETITION FOR REVIEW DENIED.
  
  
  
  
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