Cortez Cardona v. Yates

How courts have described this case

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• holding that the BIA did not abuse its discretion in denying reconsideration where petitioner had not shown she was a member of her own proposed PSGs
• holding that the petitioner failed to exhaust her claim based on a proposed particular social group that differed from the proposed groups raised before the Board
• holding that the evidence supported the Board’s finding that a Guatemalan woman had never been in a “domestic relationship” with a male individual even though the two had dated for several months
• finding that the record supported the BIA's determination that petitioner \had not demonstrated factually that she fit within her own proposed social groups\
• recognizing that \unpublished BIA decisions carry no precedential value\
• describing the “ongoing debate about the scope of . . . A-R-C-G-”

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Cited by

7 cases in this archive cite this case.

• A-B
  Board of Immigration Appeals· 2018-07-01· cited 277×
• Maria Gonzales-Veliz v. William Barr, U. S. Atty G
  Fifth Circuit· 2019-09-10· cited 186×
• Sanchez-Romero v. Sessions
  First Circuit· 2017-07-26· cited 11×
• W. M. v. C. v. William Barr, U.S. Atty Gen
  Fifth Circuit· 2019-06-07· cited 9×
• Rivas-Duran v. Barr
  First Circuit· 2019-06-17· cited 9×
• Djokro v. Garland
  First Circuit· 2024-05-17· cited 4×
• Alves-Pains v. Blanche
  First Circuit· 2026-06-18

Cites

6 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• A-R-C-G
  Board of Immigration Appeals· 2014-07-01· cited 121×
• Zhang v. Immigration & Naturalization Service
  First Circuit· 2003-11-03· cited 81×
• Martinez Lopez v. Holder
  First Circuit· 2013-01-04· cited 19×
• Kadri v. Mukasey
  First Circuit· 2008-09-30· cited 13×
• United States v. Miguel Gonzalez Vargas
  First Circuit· 1978-10-19· cited 10×
• Pheng v. Holder
  First Circuit· 2011-05-12· cited 3×