BUESO-AVILA v. Holder

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• holding religion was not a central reason where applicant claimed gang members knew about his religion and church group membership but record lacked evidence of gang members’ motivations
• no nexus where a gang was “attempting to recruit [the peti- tioner] to their ranks”
• no nexus where a gang was “attempting to recruit [the peti- tioner] to their ranks”
• substantial evidence supported IJ’s determination that applicant failed to establish past persecution where record contained no direct evidence that attackers were motivated by applicant’s membership in protected group
• “[A]n individual may qualify for asylum if his or her perse- cutors have more than one motive as long as one of the mo- tives is specified in the Immigration and Nationality Act.”
• “If an ap- plicant fails to establish eligibility for asylum, he ‘necessarily cannot sat- isfy the more stringent requirement for withholding of removal.’” (quot- ing Ahmed v. Ashcroft, 348 F.3d 611, 615 (7th Cir. 2003))

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