Maria Calderon-Mijango v. Eric Holder, Jr.

MEMORANDUM

Maria Calderon-Mijango, a native and citizen of El Salvador, petitions pro se for review of the Board of Immigration Appeals’ (“BIA”) order dismissing her appeal from an immigration judge’s decision denying her application for asylum, withholding of removal, and protection under the Convention Against Torture (“CAT”). We have jurisdiction under 8 U.S.C. § 1252 . We review de novo questions of law, Cerezo v. Mukasey, 512 F.3d 1163, 1166 (9th Cir.2008), except to the extent that deference is owed to the BIA’s determination of the governing statutes and regulations, Simeonov v. Ashcroft, 371 F.3d 532, 535 (9th Cir.2004). We review for substantial evidence factual findings. Zehatye v. Gonzales, 453 F.3d 1182, 1184-85 (9th Cir.2006). We grant in part and deny in part the petition for review and we remand.

We recently held that the BIA could not reject “all women in Guatemala” as a particular social group solely because it was overly broad and internally diverse. See Perdomo v. Holder, 611 F.3d 662, 669 (9th Cir.2010) (remanding for further proceedings). Here, the IJ similarly rejected Calderon-Mijango’s social group consisting of women in El Salvador as “too large and…