Raul Morales v. Eric Holder, Jr.
Opinion
Opinion
MEMORANDUM
Raul Morales petitions for review of two Board of Immigration Appeals decisions denying his claims for asylum, withholding of removal, cancellation of removal, and protection under the Convention Against Torture, and not reaching his challenge to the withdrawal of his Temporary Protected Status.
I
We lack jurisdiction to review the Board’s discretionary denial of Morales’s application for cancellation of removal. See 8 U.S.C. § 1252 (a)(2)(B)(i); Bermudez v. Holder, 586 F.3d 1167, 1169 (9th Cir. 2009) (per curiam).
II
The Board did not err in finding Morales ineligible for asylum and withholding because he failed to establish a nexus to a protected ground. Substantial evidence supports the Board’s conclusion that Morales faced danger not because of his membership in his claimed “particular social group” of his family, but because of his highly publicized and substantial legal settlement. Persecution based on perceived wealth alone is not directed at a cognizable social group. See Delgado-Ortiz v. Holder, 600 F.3d 1148 (9th Cir.2010) (per cu-riam) (returning Mexicans from the United States were not a cognizable social group).