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Bulmaro Amadeo VASQUEZ-PEREZ, Petitioner v. Eric H. HOLDER, Jr., Attorney General of the United States, Respondent.
    No. 14-2655.
    United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.
    Submitted: March 10, 2015.
    Filed: March 13, 2015.
    
      Joseph Lopez Wilson, Omaha, NE, for Petitioner.
    Scott Baniecke, U.S. Immigration & Naturalization Service, Bloomington, MN, Karen Yolanda Drummond, Allison Fray-er, Carl H. McIntyre, Lori Warlick, U.S. Department of Justice, Washington, DC, for Respondent.
    Before LOKEN, BOWMAN, and KELLY, Circuit Judges.
   PER CURIAM.

Guatemalan citizen Bulmaro Amadeo Vasquez-Perez petitions for review of an order of the Board of Immigration Appeals upholding an immigration judge’s decision to deny asylum and withholding of removal based on past persecution or a well-founded fear of future persecution because of his membership in a particular social group. We have carefully considered the issues that are properly before us, see De Castro-Gutierrez v. Holder, 713 F.3d 375, 379 (8th Cir.2013) (standard of review), and we conclude, based on well-established precedent, that Vasquez-Perez failed to show that the social group in which he claims membership is a particular social group for purposes of asylum protection. See Ortiz-Puentes v. Holder, 662 F.3d 481, 483 (8th Cir.2011). We deny the petition for review. See 8th Cir. R. 47B. 
      
      . We do not review those rulings below that Vasquez-Perez does not meaningfully challenge in his brief, nor do we review his new and unexhausted contentions about particular social groups.