Tania Yadira Hernandez- Barahona; v. ERIC H. HOLDER Jr., Attorney General

This disposition is not appropriate for publication and is not precedent*
except as provided by 9th Cir. R. 36-3.
The panel unanimously concludes this case is suitable for decision**
without oral argument. See Fed. R. App. P. 34(a)(2).
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NOT FOR PUBLICATION
UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS
FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT
TANIA YADIRA HERNANDEZ-
BARAHONA; et al.,
Petitioners,
v.
ERIC H. HOLDER Jr., Attorney General,
Respondent.
No. 07-72648
Agency Nos. A098-115-865
A098-115-866
A098-115-867
MEMORANDUM *
On Petition for Review of an Order of the
Board of Immigration Appeals
Submitted January 11, 2010**
Before: BEEZER, TROTT, and BYBEE, Circuit Judges.
Tania Yadira Hernandez-Barahona, and her two minor children, all natives
and citizens of Honduras, petition pro se for review of the Board of Immigration
Appeals (“BIA”) order dismissing their appeal from an immigration judge’s
FILED
JAN 19 2010
MOLLY C. DWYER, CLERK
U .S. C OU R T OF APPE ALS

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decision denying their application for asylum and withholding of removal. We
have jurisdiction under 8 U.S.C. § 1252. We review factual findings for
substantial evidence, INS v. Elias Zacarias, 502 U.S. 478, 481 n.1 (1992) and we
deny the petition for review.
Substantial evidence supports the BIA’s denial of petitioners’ asylum and
withholding of removal claims, because petitioners’ fear of gangs was insufficient
to establish that they were or would be persecuted on account of a protected
ground. See Ochoa v. Gonzales, 406 F.3d 1166, 1170-72 (9th Cir. 2005)
(affirming BIA’s denial of asylum and withholding of removal where petitioners
failed to establish their persecution was on account of social group or imputed
political opinion).
PETITION FOR REVIEW DENIED.

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