USCA11 Case: 20-13379 Date Filed: 08/17/2021 Page: 1 of 11 [DO NOT PUBLISH] IN THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE ELEVENTH CIRCUIT ________________________ No. 20-13379 Non-Argument Calendar ________________________ Agency No. A209-863-581 MARIA MATEO-JUAN, JACINTO RAYMUNDO-MATEO, Petitioners, versus U.S. ATTORNEY GENERAL, Respondent. ________________________ Petition for Review of a Decision of the Board of Immigration Appeals ________________________ (August 17, 2021) Before MARTIN, NEWSOM, and ANDERSON, Circuit Judges. PER CURIAM: USCA11 Case: 20-13379 Date Filed: 08/17/2021 Page: 2 of 11 Maria Mateo-Juan and her minor child, Jacinto Raymundo-Mateo, petition for review of the Board of Immigration Appeals’ (“BIA”) final order affirming the Immigration Judge’s (“IJ”) denial of their applications for asylum, withholding of removal, and relief under the Convention Against Torture (“CAT”). First, Mateo-Juan argues that the BIA erred by denying her application for asylum and withholding of removal on the basis that her proposed social group, “Guatemalan women and mothers against gang violence and practices,” was not a cognizable social group. Second, she argues that the BIA erred by finding her ineligible for CAT relief because the Guatemalan government had and would acquiesce to her torture by gangs in Guatemala. After careful review, we deny the petition. I. Petitioners are citizens of Guatemala. Mateo-Juan married her husband, Tomas Raymundo Gallego, when she was around age 16. Their son Raymundo- Mateo was born in 2003. In 2009, Raymundo Gallego moved to the United States and began sending money back to Mateo-Juan in Guatemala. Since that time, Mateo-Juan said she has been terrorized by gangs. Beginning in 2014, thieves began to follow Mateo-Juan to the place she would pick up the money Raymundo Gallego sent, and steal it from her. 2 USCA11 Case: 20-13379 Date Filed: 08/17/2021 Page: 3 of 11 It got even worse in 2016, when gang members targeted both Petitioners. Gangs tried to take Raymundo-Mateo away from Mateo-Juan to force him to sell marijuana. Gang members first approached Raymundo-Mateo at school and threatened to kill him and his mother if he did not sell marijuana. When he refused, they cut his hand. Because Raymundo-Mateo refused to comply, Mateo- Juan said the gang members twice attempted to rape her and threatened to kill her. She said she and Raymundo-Mateo escaped by running away. Mateo-Juan believed the same people were involved in the thefts and the attempted rapes, but she could not identify them because they wore masks. Raymundo-Mateo elaborated and said different—but related—groups of people approached him to sell marijuana. Mateo-Juan reported the incidents to the local mayor, but the mayor declined to take any action because he also feared the assailants. Shortly after the second attempted rape, Petitioners left for the United States. They entered the United States near Sunland Park, New Mexico, on December 10, 2016. The next day, the Department of Homeland Security (“DHS”) issued Notices to Appear (“NTA”) to both Petitioners, charging them as removable from the United Sates on the grounds that they were present in the United States without being admitted or paroled after …
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