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Try CasePortal for FreeJ. Stewart denies the petitioner’s request for review of an order of the Board of Immigration Appeals affirming of the immigration judge’s decision that she and her two daughters are ineligible for relief. An El Salvadoran “gang expert” testified that the government of El Salvador is involved in a violent power struggle with the MS-13 gang. Though the petitioner also testified that her neighbor, a gang member, saw her when she was on her lunch break in downtown San Salvador while she was wearing her uniform, remarking “[n]ow I know that you work at the Ministry of Justice.” The board did not err in affirming the judge’s conclusion that she had failed to show a well-founded fear of future persecution in El Salvador. A cited case states: “The question of what probative value or weight to give to expert evidence is a determination for the [immigration judge] to make as the fact finder.”