Matute-Calderon v. Holder

MEMORANDUM **

Irma Cruz Matute-Calderon and her siblings, Vicente Omar Matute-Calderon and Mariela Matute-Calderon, petition for review of the immigration judge’s (“IJ”) and Board of Immigration Appeals’ (“BIA”) orders denying their applications *581 for asylum, withholding of removal, and protection under the Convention Against Torture. We have jurisdiction under 8 U.S.C. § 1252. Because the parties are familiar with the history of the case, we need not recount it here.

Matute-Calderón and her siblings claim they have a well-founded fear of persecution based on their membership in a “particular social group,” 8 U.S.C. § 1101(a)(42)(A). Because the record as developed does not establish that the claimed social group has the requisite “social visibility” and “particularity” to constitute a viable “social group” under immigration law, the BIA and IJ did not err in denying the applications. See, e.g., Ramos-Lopez v. Holder, 563 F.3d 855, 859-61 (9th Cir. 2009) (holding that young Honduran men who resisted recruitment into a Central American gang did not possess sufficient social visibility or particularity to constitute a “particular social group”).

We need not and do not reach any other issues urged by the parties.

PETITION DENIED.