Benitez Ramos v. Holder

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• stating that a member of a violent criminal gang who committed violent acts “may be barred from the relief [of asylum]” in discretion
• denouncing the BIA’s insistence on “social visibility,” sometimes in its literal form, and charging the BIA might not understand the difference between visibility in a -12- social sense and the external criterion sense
• same regarding former 4 Insofar as Salazar challenges the BIA’s particularity and social distinction requirements as inconsistent with the statutory text, that argument is foreclosed by our decision in Ucelo-Gomez v. Mukasey, 509 F.3d 70, 72–74 (2d Cir. 2007
• former criminal- gang members are a social group
• former members of a violent street gang

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).