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· 6/15/2010

Bonilla-Morales v. Holder

Citations

  • 607 F.3d 1132
  • 2010 U.S. App. LEXIS 12177
  • 2010 WL 2499388

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

  • observing that “family members of youth who have been subjected to recruitment efforts by the [MS–13] gang and who have rejected membership” likely was not a qualifying particular social group
  • declining to find past persecution where the petitioner’s “family members were the primary targets” of gang violence
  • upholding denial of asylum because of the failure to establish the required “nexus” between the alleged persecution and membership in a particular social group

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Judges: Daughtrey, Gilman, Sutton

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