Case Name: Victor Hugo VALIENTE CALDERON, Petitioner, v. Eric H. HOLDER, Jr., Attorney General, Respondent
Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 2012-07-09
Citations: 478 F. App'x 410
Docket Number: No. 08-72560
Parties: Victor Hugo VALIENTE CALDERON, Petitioner, v. Eric H. HOLDER, Jr., Attorney General, Respondent.
Judges: Before: SCHROEDER, HAWKINS, and GOULD, Circuit Judges.
Reporter: West's Federal Appendix
Volume: 478
Pages: 410–411

Head Matter:
Victor Hugo VALIENTE CALDERON, Petitioner, v. Eric H. HOLDER, Jr., Attorney General, Respondent.
No. 08-72560.
United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.
Submitted June 26, 2012.
Filed July 9, 2012.
Love Macione Suh, Law Office of Love Macione, Oakland, CA, for Petitioner.
Nehal Kamani, David Schor, Trial, DOJ — U.S. Department of Justice, Washington, DC, for Respondent.
Before: SCHROEDER, HAWKINS, and GOULD, 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
Victor Hugo Valiente Calderon, a native and citizen of Guatemala, petitions for review of the Board of Immigration Appeals' ("BIA") order dismissing his appeal from an immigration judge's decision denying his application for withholding of removal. Our jurisdiction is governed by 8 U.S.C. § 1252. We review for substantial evidence, Molina-Estrada v. INS, 293 F.3d 1089, 1093 (9th Cir.2002), and we deny in part and dismiss in part the petition for review.
We reject Valiente Calderon's contention that the agency erred in finding no past persecution because he had not been physically harmed, because this was not the basis for the agency's past persecution finding. Valiente Calderon's claim that he was persecuted on account of a particular social group — namely, his family — fails because he faded to exhaust this contention before the BIA. See Barron v. Ashcroft, 358 F.3d 674, 678 (9th Cir.2004). With respect to future fear, we reject Valiente Calderon's contention that the agency erred in failing to apply the rebuttable presumption that his life or freedom would be threatened, because Valiente Calderon did not establish past persecution. See 8 C.F.R. § 1208.16(b)(1). Accordingly, Val-iente Calderon's withholding of removal claim fails.
PETITION FOR REVIEW DENIED in part; DISMISSED in part.
This disposition is not appropriate for publication and is not precedent except as provided by 9th Cir. R. 36-3.