Elias-Zacarias, 502 U.S. 478, 483-84, 112 S.Ct. 812, 117 L.Ed.2d 38 (1992)). Because Garcia-Sical failed to present evidence demonstrating that he had political motives for joining the police force, or that drug traffickers attributed a political opinion to him, substantial evidence supports the Id’s finding that Garcia-Sical faded to establish past persecution or a well-founded fear of future persecution on account of political opinion. See Cruz-Navarro, 232 F.3d at 1030. Substantial evidence also supports the conclusion that Garcia-Sical’s status as a current or former Guatemalan police officer is insufficient to establish membership in a particular social group for the purposes of granting asylum. See id. at 1029; see also Arriaga-Barrientos v. INS, 937 F.2d 411, 414 (9th Cir.1991) (<HOLDING>). Because Garcia-Sical failed to satisfy the
holding that the asylum standard for past persecution or wellfounded fear of future persecution is lower than the clear probability standard to show eligibility for withholding of removal holding that attempted conscription by a guatemalan guerrilla group did not constitute persecution on account of a political opinion where petitioner failed to show that the group was motivated by his political opinion holding that government informants are not members of a particular social group holding that former gang members do not comprise a particular social group holding guatemalan military is not a social group qualifying its current and former members for asylum eligibility because they are not subject to statusbased persecution