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· 8/31/2011

Carrizo v. U.S. Attorney General

Citations

  • 652 F.3d 1326
  • 2011 U.S. App. LEXIS 18182
  • 2011 WL 3828561

How courts have described this case

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

  • recognizing a petitioner has the burden to prove an imputed political opinion will cause him to be persecuted
  • denying petition for review where adverse credibility finding was based on family’s failure to disclose im- portant details of applicant’s alleged persecution
  • “A petitioner’s inability to meet the standard of proof for asylum generally precludes the petitioner from qualifying for withholding of removal.”
  • “Although [respondent] might reasonably decline to list every detention, his failure to mention any of them supports the IJ’s adverse credibility finding.”
  • “The ordinary meaning of the phrase ‘persecution on account of . . . political opinion’ in § 101(a)(42) is persecution on account of the victim’s political opinion . . . .”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Judges: Hull, Fay, Vinson

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