violence or narcotics trafficking. To the contrary, Castro-Escobar testified that they threatened him with future pain if he did not stop seeing his girlfriend. On this record, the agency was well within its discretion to find that they “may have had only personal reasons for assaulting” Castro-Escobar.- Castro-Escobar’s claim also failed on the law. He suggests that the INA should protect members of a particular social group made up of Guatemalans opposed to gangs and gang violence. The BIA has long defined the phrase “particular soc 1985) holding that “being a taxi driver in San Salvador and refusing to participate in guerrilla-sponsored work stoppages” is not an immutable characteristic. We have likewise rejected such a claim. Ucelo-Gomez v. Mukasey, 509 F.3d 70, 73 (2d Cir.2007) (<HOLDING>). Here, the agency rejected Castro-Esco-bar’s
holding that government informants are not members of a particular social group holding that government material witnesses do not constitute a particular social group holding the applicant must show social visibility and particularity holding that status as competing family business owners did not give petitioners sufficient social visibility to be perceived as a group by society holding that the proposed social group of affluent guatemalans depends on no disadvantage other than purported visibility to criminals so that the scales are tipped away from considering those people a particular social group 