Sebastian-Sebastian v. Garland "[T]he Board found that Sebastian-Sebastian failed to demonstrate a nexus between her particular social groups and the harm she faced. In its denial of CAT protection, the Board found that Sebastian-Sebastian failed to demonstrate...
Amicus brief filed Mar. 25, 2022 " Amici are greatly concerned with the impact that the panel decision [20 F.4th 128] in the instant case will have on the development of asylum law relating to particular social groups. In S.E.R.L. v. Att’y Gen. of U.S....
Corea Escoto v. Garland (unpub.) "Given the BIA’s repeated reliance on A-B-, briefing on the effect of A-B-’s overruling is necessary. We remand to the BIA to reconsider Corea’s asylum claim in the first instance, this time under pre-A-B- caselaw."...
Arita-Deras v. Wilkinson "Maria Del Refugio Arita-Deras, a native and citizen of Honduras, petitions for review of a final order of removal entered by the Board of Immigration Appeals (the Board). The Board affirmed an immigration judge’s (IJ) conclusion...
Matter of H-L-S-A-, 28 I&N Dec. 228 (BIA 2021) - Individuals who cooperate with law enforcement may constitute a valid particular social group under the Immigration and Nationality Act if their cooperation is public in nature, particularly where testimony was...
Matter of A-C-A-A-, 28 I&N Dec. 84 (A.G. 2020) (1) In conducting its review of an alien’s asylum claim, the Board of Immigration Appeals (“Board”) must examine de novo whether the facts found by the immigration judge satisfy all of the statutory elements...
Akosung v. Barr "Yvette Akosung fled her Cameroonian village after she was ordered to marry the village chieftain, known as the Fon. For more than a year, she lived in hiding, moving from place to place to avoid capture. The Fon’s envoys pursued Akosung...
Juan Antonio v. Barr "Maria Magdalena Juan Antonio, a native and citizen of Guatemala, appeals from the Board of Immigration Appeals’ (the “Board”) denial of her application for asylum and withholding of removal. In its denial, the Board found that Maria...
Guzman-Vazquez v. Barr "Manuel Guzman, a native and citizen of Mexico, petitions for review of the decision of the Board of Immigration Appeals (“BIA”) affirming an immigration judge’s denial of his application for withholding of removal. Because the IJ...
Jeffrey S. Chase, May 10, 2020 "In De Pena Paniagua v. Barr , a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit made several corrections to the Trump administration’s application of the law of asylum as it applies to victims of domestic...
De Pena-Paniagua v. Barr "In this case we confront the perplexing question of whether the requirements for establishing membership in a particular social group in support of a request for asylum or withholding of removal categorically reject any group defined...
Peña Oseguera v. Barr "The BIA admitted that the Immigration Judge incorrectly conflated the respondent’s claim with that of his mother (“We briefly note that the respondent is not a derivative application on his mother’s separate asylum application, and...
Cyrus Mehta, Mar. 9, 2019 "In Matter of A-B – , 27 I&N Dec. 227 (A.G. 2018), former Attorney General Jeff Sessions overruled a prior Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA) precedent, Matter of A-R-C-G-, 26 I&N Dec. 388 (BIA 2014), which held that...
Salgado Gutierrez v. Lynch, Aug. 24, 2016 - "I write separately only to address a proposition in the immigration court’s opinion (and echoed I regret to say in opinions of this court) that seems to me palpably false, though not determinative in this case....
Matter of X-, Apr. 18, 2016, unpub . - "[A]nalysis is also required as to the issues of particular social group cognizability and nexus. The proposed social group in this case is "working class, single women in Michoacan." ... we conclude 'that...