Case Name: Edwin Leonardo MIDENCE-MARTINEZ, Petitioner, v. Eric H. HOLDER, Jr., Attorney General, Respondent
Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 2014-05-22
Citations: 575 F. App'x 788
Docket Number: No. 10-70389
Parties: Edwin Leonardo MIDENCE-MARTINEZ, Petitioner, v. Eric H. HOLDER, Jr., Attorney General, Respondent.
Judges: 
Reporter: West's Federal Appendix
Volume: 575
Pages: 788–789

Head Matter:
Edwin Leonardo MIDENCE-MARTINEZ, Petitioner, v. Eric H. HOLDER, Jr., Attorney General, Respondent.
No. 10-70389.
United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.
Submitted May 22, 2014.
Filed May 28, 2014.
Edgardo Quintanilla, Edgardo Quintanil-la, Quintanilla Law Firm, Inc., Sherman Oaks, CA, for Petitioner.
David Nicholas Harling, Trial, U.S. Department of Justice Office of Immigration Litigation, OIL, David H. Wetmore, U.S. Department of Justice, Washington, DC, Chief Counsel Ice, Office of the Chief Counsel Department of Homeland Security, San Francisco, CA, for Respondent.
Before: PREGERSON, BERZON, and CHRISTEN, Circuit Judges.
The panel unanimously concludes this case is suitable for decision without oral argument. See Fed. R.App. P. 34(a)(2).

Opinion:
MEMORANDUM
Edwin Leonardo Midence-Martinez petitions for review of the Board of Immigration Appeals' ("BIA") denial of his application for asylum and withholding of removal, as well as its rejection of his motion to remand. We grant the petition and remand.
Midence sought asylum and withholding of removal based on persecution on account of his membership in a particular social group consisting of young men from Honduras who refused to join gangs. See 8 U.S.C. § 1101(a)(42)(A), 1231(b)(3)(A). He also moved the BIA to remand his case to the Immigration Judge ("IJ") in light of the IJ's failure to consider Midence's membership in a particular social group consisting of young, handicapped, Catholic men in Honduras who refuse to join gangs.
The BIA reasoned that the particular social groups in which Midence claimed membership are not cognizable under the Immigration and Nationality Act. The BIA has since published two precedential opinions clarifying its interpretation of the term "particular social group" in light of Henriquez-Rivas v. Holder, 707 F.3d 1081 (9th Cir.2013) (en banc). See Matter of W-G-R-, 26 I. & N. Dec. 208 (2014); Matter of M-E-V-G-, 26 I. & N. Dec. 227 (2014). As in a recent case, "we remand the petition to the BIA to consider [Mi-dence's] asylum claim in light of those decisions.... We also advise the BIA to consider [Midence's] petition in light of Henriquez-Rivas ." Pirir-Boc v. Holder, 750 F.3d 1077, 1084, 2014 WL 1797657, at *5 (9th Cir. May 7, 2014).
GRANTED and REMANDED.
This disposition is not appropriate for publication and is not precedent except as provided by 9th Cir. R. 36-3.