United States Court of Appeals
                            For the Eighth Circuit
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                                No. 17-1089
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                           Wagner A. Monterroso Divas

                             lllllllllllllllllllllPetitioner

                                           v.

         Jefferson B. Sessions, III, Attorney General of the United States

                            lllllllllllllllllllllRespondent
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                      Petition for Review of an Order of the
                          Board of Immigration Appeals
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                           Submitted: October 24, 2017
                             Filed: October 30, 2017
                                  [Unpublished]
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Before WOLLMAN, GRUENDER, and BENTON, Circuit Judges.
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PER CURIAM.

       Wagner A. Monterroso Divas challenges the Board of Immigration Appeals
denial of withholding of removal. Having jurisdiction under 8 U.S.C. § 1252(a), this
court denies the petition for review.
       Divas argues that as a former pharmaceutical delivery driver, he is a member
of a discrete social group in Guatemala. See 8 U.S.C. § 1231(b)(3)(A). This court
declines to reach that issue but addresses an alternative, independently sufficient
reason the Board of Immigration Appeals ruled against him: he did not prove the
persecution he claims to have suffered at the hands of gang members was attributable
to the Guatemalan government. See, e.g., Menjivar v. Gonzales, 

, 921
(8th Cir. 2005) (“The BIA has adopted, and we have approved as reasonable, a
definition of ‘persecution’ that requires a harm to be inflicted either by the
government of a country or by persons or an organization that the government was
unable or unwilling to control.” (quotation and brackets omitted)).

      The petition for review is denied.
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