United States Ninth Circuit

Petitioner's petition for review of the BIA's denial of his asylum request is denied, where the Court of Appeals deferred to the BIA's determination that young Salvadoran men who have resisted recruitment into a certain gang do not constitute a particular social group, and the refusal to join the gang does not amount to a political opinion.

Appellate Information

• Decided 04/16/2009
• Published 04/16/2009

Judges

• TASHIMA, Circuit Judge:, Before:  A. WALLACE TASHIMA, M. MARGARET McKEOWN, and WILLIAM A. FLETCHER, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Juliann Bildhauer, Seattle, WA, for the petitioner.


• For Appellees:
  
• Susan M. Harrison, Assistant United States Attorney, Seattle, WA, for the respondent.