Adan De Jesus Munoz- Henriquez v. ERIC H. HOLDER, Jr., Attorney General

NOT FOR PUBLICATION
UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS
FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT
ADAN DE JESUS MUNOZ-
HENRIQUEZ,
Petitioner,
v.
ERIC H. HOLDER, Jr., Attorney General,
Respondent.
No. 10-71822
Agency No. A089-860-012
MEMORANDUM*
On Petition for Review of an Order of the
Board of Immigration Appeals
Submitted June 12, 2014**
Before: McKEOWN, WARDLAW, and M. SMITH, Circuit Judges.
Adan de Jesus Munoz-Henriquez, a native and citizen of El Salvador,
petitions for review of the Board of Immigration Appeals’ (“BIA”) order
dismissing his appeal from an immigration judge’s (“IJ”) decision denying his
FILED
JUN 16 2014
MOLLY C. DWYER, CLERK
U.S. COURT OF APPEALS
* This disposition is not appropriate for publication and is not precedent
except as provided by 9th Cir. R. 36-3.
** The panel unanimously concludes this case is suitable for decision
without oral argument. See Fed. R. App. P. 34(a)(2).

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application for withholding of removal. We have jurisdiction under
8 U.S.C. § 1252. We grant the petition for review and remand.
In denying Munoz-Henriquez’s withholding of removal claim, the BIA
found Munoz-Henriquez failed to articulate a cognizable particular social group.
When the IJ and BIA issued their decisions in this case they did not have the
benefit of either this court’s decisions in Henriquez-Rivas v. Holder, 707 F.3d 1081
(9th Cir. 2013) (en banc), and Cordoba v. Holder, 726 F.3d 1106 (9th Cir. 2013),
or the BIA’s decisions in Matter of M-E-V-G-, 26 I. & N. Dec. 227 (BIA 2014),
and Matter of W-G-R-, 26 I. & N. Dec. 208 (BIA 2014). In light of these
intervening decisions, we grant Munoz-Henriquez’s petition for review and remand
for further proceedings consistent with this disposition. See INS v. Ventura, 537
U.S. 12, 16-18 (2002) (per curiam).
PETITION FOR REVIEW GRANTED; REMANDED.
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