Elias Umana-Ramos v. Eric Holder, Jr.

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that “young Salvadorans who ha[ve] been threatened because they refused to join the MS gang” does not amount to a particular social group
• holding that “young Salvadorans who have been threatened because they refused to join the MS gang is not cognizable under the INA” (cleaned up)
• holding that “young Salvadoran males who refuse recruitment by the MS gang” was not a cognizable particular social group
• holding that a proposed social group was “not sufficiently socially visible” because “no evidence in the record” suggested that the group was “perceived as a distinct segment of the [country’s] population”
• holding that a group of young Salvadorans threatened for refusal to join a gang lacks social visibility because gang violence in El Salvador affects all segments of the population, not just those refusing to join a gang
• explaining that we also review the immigration judge’s decision “[t]o the extent the BIA adopted the immigration judge’s reasoning”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).