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151095P.pdf 06/07/2016 Remberto Aguinada-Lopez v. Loretta E. Lynch
U.S. Court of Appeals Case No: 15-1095
Petition for Review of an Order of the Board of Immigration Appeals
[PUBLISHED] [Benton, Author, with Murphy and Kelly, Circuit Judges]
Petition for Review - Immigration. Assuming that petitioner's proposed
family-based groups are cognizable groups for his claim that he was
subject to persecution because of his membership in a protected group, he
failed to show a nexus between his membership and the persecution;
petitioner failed to show the government of El Salvador participates in or
acquiesces to torture, and the BIA did not err in rejecting petitioner's
Convention Against Torture claim.
151095P.pdf 02/23/2016 Remberto Aguinada-Lopez v. Loretta E. Lynch
U.S. Court of Appeals Case No: 15-1095
Petition for Review of an Order of the Board of Immigration Appeals
[PUBLISHED] [Benton, Author, with Murphy and Kelly, Circuit Judges]
Petition for Review - Immigration. None of the proposed social groups in
which petitioner claimed membership had the kind of visibility and
particularity required to constitute a recognizable social group, and the
BIA did not err in denying petitioner's claim for withholding of removal;
while El Salvador has struggled to control gang violence, it has not
acquiesced to gang violence, and the BIA did not err in denying
petitioner's claim for Convention Against Torture relief.