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Case: 22-60106   Document: 00516655398      Page: 1   Date Filed: 02/24/2023

          United States Court of Appeals
               for the Fifth Circuit
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                                                             United States Court of Appeals
                                                                      Fifth Circuit
                              No. 22-60106
                            Summary Calendar                        FILED
                            ____________                     February 24, 2023
                                                 Lyle W. Cayce
   Luis Fernando Solis Fernandez; Maria Guadalupe     Clerk
   Villalobos Hinojosa; Maria Yesica Solis Fernandez;
   Maria Guadalupe Fernandez Martinez; Maria B. Solis
   Villalobos; Lizbeth Solis Villalobos,

                                                              Petitioners,

                                  versus

   Merrick Garland, U.S. Attorney General,

                                                             Respondent.
                 ______________________________

                    Petition for Review of an Order of the
                        Board of Immigration Appeals
                  Agency Nos. A206 493 258, A206 493 259,
                        A206 493 260, A206 493 261,
                        A206 493 262, A206 493 263
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Case: 22-60106         Document: 00516655398             Page: 2      Date Filed: 02/24/2023

                                          No. 22-60106

   Before Jones, Haynes, and Oldham, Circuit Judges.
   Per Curiam: *
          Luis Fernando Solis Fernandez, his wife Maria Guadalupe Villalobos
   Hinojosa, their daughters Maria B. Solis Villalobos and Lizbeth Solis
   Villalobos; as well as his sister Maria Yesica Solis Fernandez and his mother
   Maria Guadalupe Fernandez Martinez (altogether hereafter “the family”),
   all natives and citizens of Mexico, petition this court to review the Board of
   Immigration Appeals decision dismissing their appeal of the immigration
   court’s denial of asylum, withholding of removal, and relief under the
   Convention Against Torture. In seeking asylum, the family had to show that
   they belong to a cognizable social group, that there is a nexus between the
   persecution they suffered and a protected category, and that the government
   in Mexico “is either unwilling or unable to protect [them] from the
   persecution.” Lopez-Perez v. Garland, 35 F.4th 953, 957 (5th Cir. 2022)
   (internal quotation marks and citations omitted).
          As relevant here, the family argues that the BIA erred in concluding
   that they failed to show that the Mexican government was unwilling or unable
   to control the violence perpetrated against their family by another family over
   a water and land dispute.            In light of the investigations, arrests, and
   prosecution by the Mexican authorities of attackers against the Solis family,
   substantial evidence supports the BIA’s conclusion that the family failed to
   show that the Mexican government condoned or was unable to control the
   private violence against their family. See Lopez-Perez, 35 F.4th at 957;
   Gonzales-Veliz v. Barr, 938 F.3d 219, 224 (5th Cir. 2019); Singh v. Sessions,
   880 F.3d 220, 224 (5th Cir. 2018). Because the issue of the Government’s
   acquiescence or inability to stop the harm is dispositive of the family’s asylum
   claims, see Lopez-Perez, 35 F.4th at 957, we do not address the family’s further
   arguments as to their particular social group, political opinion, nexus, past

          _____________________
          *
              This opinion is not designated for publication. See 5th Cir. R. 47.5.

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                                    No. 22-60106

   persecution, or likely future persecution. See INS v. Bagamasbad, 429 U.S.
   24, 25 (1976). The evidence in the record does not compel a conclusion
   contrary to the BIA’s determination that the family failed to make the
   necessary showing for asylum. See Bertrand v. Garland, 36 F.4th 627, 632-33
   (5th Cir. 2022); Gozales-Veliz, 938 F.3d at 224.
          The family’s failure to satisfy the asylum standard, see Gonzales-Veliz,
   938 F.3d at 224, prevents them from satisfying the more stringent standard
   for withholding of removal, see Efe v. Ashcroft, 293 F.3d 899, 906 (5th Cir.
   2002). The family explicitly abandons any challenge to the denial relief under
   the Convention Against Torture.
          The petition for review is DENIED.

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