NOT FOR PUBLICATION FILED UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS JUL 12 2022 MOLLY C. DWYER, CLERK U.S. COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT WILFREDO ANTONIO ENRIQUEZ- No. 15-73910 PALACIOS, Immigration File Petitioner, No. A200-711-328 v. MERRICK GARLAND, Attorney General, MEMORANDUM* Respondent. On Petition for Review of an Order of the Board of Immigration Appeals Submitted July 8, 2022** Portland, Oregon Before: R. NELSON and LEE, Circuit Judges, and RAKOFF,*** District Judge. * This disposition is not appropriate for publication and is not precedent except as provided by Ninth Circuit Rule 36-3. ** The panel previously determined unanimously that the case should be submitted on the briefs and record, without oral argument. See Fed. R. App. P. 34(a)(2). *** The Honorable Jed S. Rakoff, United States District Judge for the Southern District of New York, sitting by designation. Petitioner Wilfredo Antonio Enriquez-Palacios, a citizen of El Salvador, entered the United States without inspection near Nogales, Arizona on or about April 14, 2005, and he has remained in the United States continuously since then. He was convicted of domestic violence in August 2010. The next month, he was served with a notice to appear, charging him with removability under 8 U.S.C. § 1182(a)(6)(A)(i), which he conceded to before an immigration judge (“IJ”). Then in 2013, he filed an application for asylum, withholding of removal, and protection under the Convention Against Torture (“CAT”), stating that he feared returning to El Salvador because he and his family members had been subject to harassment, death threats, and extortion by gang members. 1. In 2014, Enriquez-Palacios appeared before an IJ for a hearing on his petition for relief. He testified that he had been beaten up by gang members on three occasions in El Salvador. First, members of the MS-13 gang attacked him after he refused their demand for money. Second, after playing a soccer game at a ranch, members of MS-13 approached him, threatened him with a gun for being in “their territory,” forced him to strip so they could search for (non-existent) tattoos from a rival gang, and told him not to return to the area. Third, while working as a taxi driver, he and a colleague were robbed at gunpoint by gang members, and the colleague was killed. Enriquez-Palacios fled to the United States about a month later. 2. Following Enriquez-Palacios’s testimony, the IJ rendered an oral decision denying all requested relief. The Board of Immigration Appeals (“BIA”) affirmed, holding that the asylum application was barred as untimely, that Enriquez-Palacios failed to establish a nexus between past persecution and a protected ground, and that, with respect to the CAT claim, he had failed to establish that the government of El Salvador would acquiesce in any future harm from gang members. Enriquez- Palacios timely petitioned this court for review, and we deny his petition for withholding of removal and CAT protection.1 3. We have jurisdiction under 8 U.S.C. § 1252 to review final orders of removal, Yali Wang v. Sessions, 861 F.3d 1003, …
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