Osvaldo Gomez-Guzman v. Eric Holder, Jr.

OPINION

HELENE N. WHITE, Circuit Judge.

Osvaldo Gomez-Guzman (“Gomez”) seeks review of a Board of Immigration Appeals (“BIA”) order denying his application for asylum. We AFFIRM.

I

Gomez was born in 1989 in San Martin, Sacatepequez, Guatemala. 1 A year later, Gomez and his mother moved to Concepcion, Chiquirichapa, Guatemala, where they lived with Gomez’s stepfather and four half-siblings. Because the family needed money, when Gomez was eleven years-old, Gomez’s stepfather forced him to quit school and start working in construction. In that job, he mixed cement, loaded blocks of cement, climbed…