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                               NOT FOR PUBLICATION                           NOV 30 2009

                                                                         MOLLY C. DWYER, CLERK
                       UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS                     U .S. C O U R T O F AP PE ALS

                                FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT

 PATRICIA JEANETH AREVALO-                        No. 08-71545
 CONTRERAS,
                                                  Agency No. A000-113-594
                Petitioner,

    v.                                            MEMORANDUM *

 ERIC H. HOLDER Jr., Attorney General,

                Respondent.

                        On Petition for Review of an Order of the
                            Board of Immigration Appeals

                                                            **
                              Submitted November 17, 2009

Before: ALARCÓN, TROTT, AND TASHIMA, Circuit Judges.

         Patricia Jeaneth Arevalo-Contreras, a native and citizen of El Salvador,

petitions for review of the Board of Immigration Appeals' decision affirming the

           *
             This disposition is not appropriate for publication and is not precedent
except as provided by 9th Cir. R. 36-3.
           **
            The panel unanimously finds this case suitable for decision without
oral argument. See Fed. R. App. P. 34(a)(2).

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immigration judge's denial of her application for asylum, withholding of removal,

and protection under the Convention Against Torture ("CAT"). We have

jurisdiction under 8 U.S.C. § 1252. We review for substantial evidence, Santos-

Lemus v. Mukasey, 542 F.3d 738, 742 (9th Cir. 2008), and we deny the petition for

review.

         The record does not compel reversal of the IJ's conclusion that petitioner

failed to establish that the harm she suffered at the hands of gang members in El

Salvador was on account of a protected ground. See Ramos-Lopez v. Holder, 563

F.3d 855, 858-62 (9th Cir. 2009) (concluding that resistance to gang activity is not

a particular social group for the purpose of establishing nexus to a protected

ground); Molina-Morales v. INS, 237 F.3d 1048, 1051-52 (9th Cir. 2001) (personal

retribution is not persecution on account of a protected ground). Accordingly,

petitioner's asylum, withholding of removal, and CAT claims fail.

         Contrary to petitioner's allegation, the BIA did not issue a streamlined

decision, and the BIA's decision did not constitute a due process violation. See

Falcon-Cariche v. Ashcroft, 350 F.3d 845, 849 (9th Cir. 2003). In addition,

petitioner requests voluntary departure for the first time in this petition for review,

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but this court lacks authority to provide such relief. See 8 U.S.C. § 1229c(a)(1); 8

C.F.R. § 1240.26.

         PETITION FOR REVIEW DENIED.

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