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201534P.pdf 07/06/2021 Hugo Bautista-Bautista v. Merrick B. Garland
U.S. Court of Appeals Case No: 20-1534
Petition for Review of an Order of the Board of Immigration Appeals
[PUBLISHED] [Colloton, Author, with Wollman and Shepherd, Circuit Judges]
Petition for Review - Immigration. The agency did not err in denying
petitioner's claim for withholding of removal because he was no longer a
member of his first proposed social group (tattooed Guatemala youth) by
virtue of his current age; as to his second group - people who promised to
remove tattoos and did not - the group lacks social distinction; in any
event, the agency did not err in determining he could relocate in
Guatemala to avoid his hometown vigilante group; the agency did not err in
rejecting petitioner's CAT claim as petitioner could relocated to avoid
the group; nor was there any evidence that Guatemala had acquiesced in any
torture performed by the group.