191347P.pdf   05/28/2020  Luis Amadeo Prieto-Pineda  v.  William P. Barr
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  19-1347
   Petition for Review of an Order of the Board of Immigration Appeals   
   [PUBLISHED] [Erickson, Author, with Grasz and Kobes, Circuit Judges] 
   Petition for Review - immigration. Substantial evidence supports that 
   Prieto-Pineda does not face persecution based on membership in a 
   particular social group or political opinion in El Salvado and that the El 
   Salvadoran government is not unwilling or unable to protect him; although 
   the record shows gang members targeted him for his access to the fishing 
   cooperative's boats, any persecution was not based on his membership in 
   the cooperative and he was not targeted due to his family membership. The 
   death of his wife was unrelated to his past dealings and evidence shows 
   Prieto-Pineda was not harassed for any political opposition to the gang. 
   The record does not show the government was unwilling or unable to protect 
   him if he returned. The Board did not err in finding he was ineligible for 
   asylum because he failed to show the harm he feared qualified as 
   persecution and there is no need to analyze whether he established an 
   exception to the one-year bar. Any fact-finding by the Board in 
   determining relief under the Convention against Torture was harmless 
   error.