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Case: 22-60523          Document: 00516617694              Page: 1      Date Filed: 01/20/2023

              United States Court of Appeals
                   for the Fifth Circuit
                                        ___________                               United States Court of Appeals
                                                                                           Fifth Circuit

                                                                                           FILED
                                        No. 22-60523                               January 20, 2023
                                      Summary Calendar
                                       ___________                                  Lyle W. Cayce
                                                                                         Clerk
   Wilmer David Martinez Martinez,

                                                                                    Petitioner,

                                              versus

   Merrick Garland, U.S. Attorney General,

                                                                                  Respondent.
                       ______________________________

                        Petition for Review from an Order of the
                              Board of Immigration Appeals
                               Agency No. A209 289 905
                       ______________________________

   Before Higginbotham, Duncan, and Wilson, Circuit Judges.
   Per Curiam: *
          Wilmer David Martinez Martinez, a native and citizen of Honduras,
   seeks review of the Board of Immigration Appeals’ (BIA) decision, adopting
   and affirming the Immigration Judge’s decision, which denied Martinez’s
   application for asylum, withholding of removal, and protection under the
   Convention Against Torture. The government has moved to summarily
   deny his petition. It argues that Martinez failed to (1) establish that he faced

          *
              This opinion is not designated for publication. See 5th Circuit Rule 47.5.
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   a credible threat of harm or persecution, (2) identify a cognizable Particular
   Social Group, and (3) show the Honduran government is unable or unwilling
   to protect him from his brother’s alleged killer. This court reviews the BIA’s
   decision along with “the IJ’s findings and conclusions” to the extent the BIA
   adopted them. Wang v. Holder, 569 F.3d 531, 536 (5th Cir. 2009). We review
   factual findings for “substantial evidence.” Ibid.
          “The summary affirmance procedure is generally reserved for cases
   in which the parties concede that the issues are foreclosed by circuit
   precedent.” United States v. Oduu, 564 F. App’x 127, 129 (5th Cir. 2014) (per
   curiam). Martinez makes no such concession but instead argues that this
   court’s, and other circuits’, precedent support his claim for relief. For this
   reason, we DENY the government’s motion for summary disposition.
          After considering Martinez’s arguments, however, we need no
   further briefing to conclude that the record provides substantial evidence to
   support the BIA’s determination that Martinez was ineligible for removal
   relief. We thus DISPENSE with further briefing and DENY Martinez’s
   petition for review.
          The government’s alternative motion to extend the time to file its
   brief is DENIED AS MOOT.

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