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171643P.pdf 04/24/2018 Carlos Mayorga-Rosa v. Jefferson B. Sessions, III
U.S. Court of Appeals Case No: 17-1643
Petition for Review of an Order of the Board of Immigration Appeals
[PUBLISHED] [Benton, Author, with Loken and Erickson, Circuit Judges]
Petition for Review - Immigration. Petitioner did not meet his burden to
propose a social group, so the IJ did not need to seek clarification of
the particular social group; IJ's decision on the particular social group
considered the issues raised and set forth a decision sufficient to permit
the reviewing court to conclude that the IJ had heard and thought about
the arguments; the BIA did not err in finding the proposed group -
Guatemalans who refused to participate in drug trafficking and spoke "out
of turn" about the solicitation - was too broad and amorphous to be
recognizable; petitioner failed to establish he had a well-founded fear of
future persecution on a statutory ground.