MEMORANDUM **

Daniel de Jesus Salamanca, a native and citizen of El Salvador, petitions pro se for review of the decision of the Board of Immigration Appeals, affirming the immigration judge’s denial of his application for *651 withholding of removal, and the pretermission of the asylum application for untimeliness.

Salamanca contends that he suffered past persecution, and fears future persecution because his uncle killed petitioner’s father in a dispute over land, and threatened to kill petitioner after the uncle was released from prison. The record does not compel the conclusion that Salamanca was persecuted or feared persecution on account of a protected ground. Salamanca’s asylum claim was pretermitted as untimely, and his withholding claim fails because petitioner failed to establish any nexus between the claimed persecution and a protected ground for purposes of withholding of removal. See INS v. Elias-Zacarias, 502 U.S. 478, 482-83, 112 S.Ct. 812, 117 L.Ed.2d 38 (1992).

We lack jurisdiction to consider Salamanca’s claim raised for the first time on appeal, that his family constituted a social group, because petitioner failed to administratively exhaust the claim. See Barron v. Ashcroft, 358 F.3d 674, 677 (9th Cir. 2004).

PETITION FOR REVIEW DENIED IN PART; DISMISSED IN PART.