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183651P.pdf   12/11/2019  Mario Mejia-Lopez  v.  William P. Barr
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  18-3651
   Petition for Review of an Order of the Board of Immigration Appeals   
   [PUBLISHED] [Smith, Author, with Beam and Erickson, Circuit Judges] 
   Petition for Review - Immigration. Petitioners' argument that past 
   persecution is not required as a prerequisite for obtaining humanitarian 
   asylum is foreclosed by this court's existing precedents - see e.g., 
   Kanagu v. Holder, 781 F.3d 912 (8th Cir. 2015) - and the agency did not 
   abuse its discretion in denying their request for humanitarian asylum.