Mayorga-Vidal v. Holder

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• holding that substantial evidence supported the Agency's no-acquiescence finding where country conditions evidence stated, in part, that the Salvadoran police had made efforts to crack down on gang violence
• finding supportable the BIA's conclusion that the petitioner's refusal to join a gang, without more, was not an expression of political opinion
• affirming a determination that the applicant did not show that the Salvadoran Government would acquiesce to torture by gangs even though “El Salvador’s efforts at managing gang activity have not been completely effectual”
• rejecting the proposed particular social group of “young Salvadoran males who have resisted gang recruitment and are vulnerable to gangs from a lack of parental or family protection”
• “Political persecution may be grounded on an imputed political opinion, whether or not the opinion is correctly or incorrectly attributed to the alien.”
• Generally, a severe sanction, such as default or dismissal, is 18 19 inappropriate in most cases when based on one incident

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