Carlos Chilel v. Eric H. Holder, Jr.

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• holding proposed group “individuals who are victims of gang violence” not cognizable because it “lacks the visibility and particularity required to constitute a social group” (quotation omitted)
• finding that the petitioner failed to demonstrate that “those who refuse to join a gang and suffer from the threats of violence as a result” constituted a protected social group
• failure to raise issue before agency constitutes failure to exhaust administrative remedies and deprives this court of jurisdiction to consider it
• groups of persons who suffered violence, or threats of violence, due to their refusals to join criminal gangs lacks requisite visibility, particularity, and/or social distinction to qualify as particular social group

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).