Ucelo-Gomez v. Mukasey

How courts have described this case

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• holding that “a social group 4 cannot be defined exclusively by the fact that its members 5 have been subjected to harm”
• holding that “a social group 12 cannot be defined exclusively by the fact that its members have been subjected to 13 harm” (quotation marks omitted)
• holding that status as affluent Guatemalans allegedly targeted because of their wealth was not a particular social group
• concluding that wealth was too subjective and variable a metric to define the boundaries of a particular social group
• holding that harm purely 14 motivated by wealth is not persecution
• holding that 4 “[w]hen the harm visited upon members of a group is attributable to the incentives 5 presented to ordinary criminals rather than to persecution, the scales are tipped 6 away from considering those people a ‘particular social group’”

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