Gerardo Antonio Fuentes, a native and citizen of Honduras, petitions pro se for review of the decision of the Board of Immigration Appeals denying his applications for withholding of removal and relief under the Convention Against Torture. Fuentes contends that he was persecuted by street gangs when he refused to join their organization, and alleges that the gangs are still actively looking for him. Substantial evidence supports the BIA’s finding that the beatings and harassment that Fuentes received from gang members seeking to recruit him did not establish past persecution on account of a protected ground, or a well-founded fear of future persecution. See Ramos-Lopez v. Holder, 563 F.3d 855, 858 (9th Cir.2009) (<HOLDING>). Substantial evidence also supports the BIA’s
holding that young men who resist gang recruitment do not constitute a particular social group and refusal to join a gang does not amount to a political opinion holding that refusal to join guerrilla group is itself not affirmative expression of political opinion holding that  former members of the mara 18 gang in el salvador who have renounced their gang membership does not constitute a particular social group because it lacks particularity because it is too diffuse as well as being too broad and subjective holding that former gang members do not comprise a particular social group holding that government material witnesses do not constitute a particular social group