POSNER, Circuit Judge.
The Board of Immigration Appeals denied Nelson Alejandro Benitez Ramos's application for withholding of removal, a remedy that is similar to asylum (the deadline for applying for which Ramos had missed) but that requires the applicant to establish a higher probability of persecution should he be returned to his native country. The ground of the denial was that Ramos is not a member of "a particular social group." Persecution on the basis of...
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