Jaime Cruz-Amaya v. Eric Holder, Jr.

MEMORANDUM

Jaime Clow Cruz-Amaya (“Cruz-Ama-ya”) petitions for review of his final order of removal. We have jurisdiction pursuant to 8 U.S.C. § 1252 , and we deny the petition.

Cruz-Amaya contends that he is eligible for asylum as a member of the particular social group of “child laborers” in El Salvador. The BIA and IJ convincingly reasoned that a social group as broad and amorphous as all child laborers within a country does not satisfy the social group requirement. We agree. See Ramos-Lopez v. Holder, 563 F.3d 855, 861-62 (9th Cir.2009) (rejecting social group consisting of young men who resisted gang recruitment because “[ojnly shared experience— that of gang recruitment — unites them.”), abrogated on other grounds by Henriquez-Rivas v. Holder, 707 F.3d 1081 (9th Cir.2013) (en banc); Santos-Lemus v. Mukasey, 542 F.3d 738, 746 (9th Cir.2008) (rejecting social group of young men who resist gang violence). Child laborers as a group is less defined than the groups rejected in Santos-Lemus and Ramos-Lopez because it is not limited by a particular gender, shared action, or belief. Moreover, Cruz-Amaya did not show that child laborers as a group have social visibility. See Donchev…