
    Lorenzo Vicente PELAYES, Petitioner, v. Eric H. HOLDER, Jr., Attorney General, Respondent.
    No. 09-71510.
    United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.
    Submitted Feb. 21, 2012.
    
    Filed March 5, 2012.
    Nadeem H. Makada, Burlingame, CA, for Petitioner.
    Richard Zanfardino, U.S. Department of Justice, Civil Division/Office of Immigration Litigation, Washington, DC, Ronald E. Lefevre, Office of the District Counsel Department of Homeland Security, San Francisco, CA, for Respondent.
    Before: FERNANDEZ, McKEOWN, and BYBEE, Circuit Judges.
    
      
       The panel unanimously concludes this case is suitable for decision without oral argument. See Fed. R.App. P. 34(a)(2).
    
   MEMORANDUM

Lorenzo Vicente Pelayes, a native and citizen of Argentina, petitions for review of the Board of Immigration Appeals’ order dismissing his appeal from an immigration judge’s decision denying his application for withholding of removal. We have jurisdiction under 8 U.S.C. § 1252. We review for substantial evidence the agency’s factual findings, Molina-Morales v. INS, 237 F.3d 1048, 1050 (9th Cir.2001). and we deny the petition for review.

Substantial evidence supports the agency’s finding that Pelayes did not demonstrate past persecution or a clear probability of future persecution on account of his membership in a particular social group, political opinion, or other protected ground. See id at 1051-52; see also Parussimova, 555 F.3d 734, 740 (“[t]he Real ID Act requires that a protected ground represent 'one central reason’ for an asylum applicant’s persecution”). Accordingly, Pelayes’ withholding of removal claim fails.

PETITION FOR REVIEW DENIED. 
      
       This disposition is not appropriate for publication and is not precedent except as provided by 9 th Cir. R. 36-3.
     