Case: 16-60557 Document: 00514166994 Page: 1 Date Filed: 09/22/2017 IN THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE FIFTH CIRCUIT United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit No. 16-60557 FILED Summary Calendar September 22, 2017 Lyle W. Cayce Clerk ERIKA LOPEZ-DIAZ, also known as Yuridia Alvarez-Martinez, Petitioner v. JEFFERSON B. SESSIONS, III, U.S. ATTORNEY GENERAL, Respondent Petition for Review of an Order of the Board of Immigration Appeals BIA No. A200 691 130 Before JOLLY, OWEN, and HAYNES, Circuit Judges. PER CURIAM: * Erika Lopez-Diaz, a native and citizen of Mexico, applied for asylum, withholding of removal, and relief under the Convention Against Torture (CAT). She sought relief based on her kidnapping, during which she and other young women were held for a long period of time, forcibly drugged, beaten, burned, and repeatedly raped by multiple men. She petitions for review of the decision of the Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA) dismissing her appeal from * Pursuant to 5TH CIR. R. 47.5, the court has determined that this opinion should not be published and is not precedent except under the limited circumstances set forth in 5TH CIR. R. 47.5.4. Case: 16-60557 Document: 00514166994 Page: 2 Date Filed: 09/22/2017 No. 16-60557 the Immigration Judge’s denial of her applications for asylum and withholding of removal. 1 As to her claim of asylum, Lopez-Diaz has not shown that the evidence compels a conclusion contrary to the finding that asylum was unwarranted. The BIA did not err in holding that Lopez-Diaz’s proposed social group of young, recently deported women with children was not cognizable as a “particular social group” for purposes of asylum. See Orellana-Monson v. Holder, 685 F.3d 511, 518 (5th Cir. 2012). We have not recognized proposed particular social groups of young women susceptible to abuse by gangs in El Salvador. See Vasquez-De Lopez v. Lynch, 620 F. App’x 293, 295 (5th Cir. 2015); Lareynaja-Cruz v. Holder, 551 F. App’x 222, 222-23 (5th Cir. 2014). In addition, Lopez-Diaz did not demonstrate that the evidence compels a conclusion that there is a nexus between her membership in the proposed social group and the harm she suffered. See Orellana-Monson, 685 F.3d at 518. Conduct that is driven by criminal, nonpolitical motives does not establish that a person was persecuted on account of a protected ground. Thuri v. Ashcroft, 380 F.3d 788, 792-93 (5th Cir. 2004). The Government correctly points out that Lopez-Diaz did not challenge the BIA’s determination that she did not show that the harm she suffered was caused by the Government or by persons that the Government was unable or unwilling to control. Therefore, Lopez-Diaz has waived this issue by failing to brief it adequately. See Sama v. Hannigan, 669 F.3d 585, 589 (5th Cir. 2012). Lopez-Diaz has also failed to demonstrate that the evidence compels a conclusion that she has an objectively reasonable fear of future persecution by the kidnappers if she is removed to Mexico based on the fact that the 1 Lopez-Diaz did not appeal the IJ’s denial of ...
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