Santos-Lemus v. Mukasey

How courts have described this case

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• concluding that young men in El Salvador resisting gang violence does not qualify as a particular social group
• holding that “general aversion to gangs does not constitute a political opinion for asylum purposes”
• holding that the group of young men in El Salvador resisting gang violence is too loosely defined to meet the requirement for particularity
• concluding that applicant’s CAT claim was undermined in part by mother’s ability to remain unharmed in applicant’s country of origin
• holding that young men who resist gang violence in El Salvador do not constitute a particular social group
• holding that young men in El Salvador resisting gang violence do not constitute a particular social group

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).