Case Name: Eulalia GASPAR-BARTOLO, Petitioner, v. Eric H. HOLDER, Jr., Attorney General, Respondent
Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 2013-07-31
Citations: 535 F. App'x 564
Docket Number: No. 11-71704
Parties: Eulalia GASPAR-BARTOLO, Petitioner, v. Eric H. HOLDER, Jr., Attorney General, Respondent.
Judges: Before: ALARCÓN, CLIFTON, and CALLAHAN, Circuit Judges.
Reporter: West's Federal Appendix
Volume: 535
Pages: 564–565

Head Matter:
Eulalia GASPAR-BARTOLO, Petitioner, v. Eric H. HOLDER, Jr., Attorney General, Respondent.
No. 11-71704.
United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.
Submitted July 24, 2013.
Filed July 31, 2013.
David Belaire Landry, Esquire, Law Office of David Landry, San Diego, CA, for Petitioner.
Andrew Nathan O’Malley, Trial, Oil, Ernesto Horacio Molina, Jr., Esquire, Senior Litigation Counsel, 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: ALARCÓN, CLIFTON, and CALLAHAN, 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
Eulalia Gaspar-Bartolo, a native and citizen of Guatemala, petitions for review of the Board of Immigration Appeals' ("BIA") order summarily affirming an immigration judge's decision denying her application for asylum, withholding of removal, and relief under the Convention Against Torture ("CAT"). We have jurisdiction under 8 U.S.C. § 1252. We review for substantial evidence factual findings. Zehatye v. Gonzales, 453 F.3d 1182, 1184-85 (9th Cir.2006). We grant the petition for review and remand.
In evaluating Gaspar-Bartolo's claim of past persecution, the BIA found that the harm that she suffered did not rise to the level of persecution. However, in reaching this conclusion, the BIA did not have the benefit of our intervening decision in Mendoza-Pablo v. Holder, 667 F.3d 1308 (9th Cir.2012). Gaspar-Bartolo established that when she was a child, her father fled into exile and she, her mother, and her siblings were forced to abandon their home multiple times due to credible threats of abduction and death that they received from guerrillas. See id. at 1314 ("being forced to flee from one's home in the face of an immediate threat of severe physical •violence or death is squarely encompassed within the rubric of persecution"); see also Hernandez-Ortiz v. Gonzales, 496 F.3d 1042, 1046 (9th Cir.2007) ("injuries to a family must be considered in an asylum case where the events that form the basis of the past persecution claim were perceived when the petitioner was a child"). Accordingly, we grant the petition for review and remand to the BIA for further proceeding on Gaspar-Bartolo's asylum and withholding of removal claims.
In light of this disposition, we do not reach Gaspar-Bartolo's due process claim.
Gaspar-Bartolo does not raise any arguments regarding the denial of CAT relief. See Martinez-Serrano v. INS, 94 F.3d 1256, 1259-60 (9th Cir.1996) (issues not specifically raised and argued in a party's opening brief are waived).
PETITION FOR REVIEW GRANTED; REMANDED.
This disposition is not appropriate for publication and is not precedent except as provided by 9th Cir. R. 36-3.