W.G.A. v. Sessions

Hamilton, Circuit Judge.

*960In 2015, tattooed members of the Mara 18 gang held a gun to petitioner W.G.A.'s head and threatened to kill him.1 The Mara 18-also known as the "Calle 18," "Barrio 18," or "Eighteenth Street" gang-is one of the two main gangs operating in El Salvador. Together with their rivals, MS-13, the Mara 18 terrorize the Salvadoran population and government. The gangs use violence to exercise an enormous degree of social control over their territories, dictating where residents can walk, whom they can talk to, what they can wear, and when they must be inside their homes. The…