Denis Zelaya v. Eric Holder, Jr.

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• concluding that particular social group of young Honduran males who refuse to join the gang not cognizable
• holding that resisting gang recruitment does not satisfy the requirements for a protectable social group
• recognizing that the petitioner’s proposed social group of young Honduran males who refuse to join MS-13 did not have the immutable characteristic of family bonds and denying petition for review with respect to asylum and withholding of removal claims
• holding “young Honduran males who refuse to join MS-13, have notified authorities of MS-13’s harassment tactics and have an identifiable MS-13 tormenter” lacked particularity
• noting that resisting gang recruitment is \an amorphous characteristic providing neither an adequate benchmark for determining group membership nor embodying a concrete trait that would readily identify a person as possessing such a characteristic\
• vacating denial of CAT claim where agency failed to consider evidence of collaboration between local police and gang

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).