Arteaga v. Mukasey

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• holding that “tattooed gang member” is not a social group and rejecting a claim that former gang tattoos mark the petitioner for potential gang persecution
• holding that an individual having tattoos is not part of a sufficiently particular social group
• concluding that being detained by the Salvadorian police for up to 72 hours on suspicion of being a gang member “alone does not amount to persecution”
• holding that tattooed gang members did not constitute a cognizable 3 25-5716 social group
• holding that former gang members do not comprise a particular social group
• holding that former gang members do not comprise a particular social group

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).