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First Circuit· 2/17/2017

Cortez Cardona v. Yates

Citations

  • 848 F.3d 519
  • 2017 WL 655759
  • 2017 U.S. App. LEXIS 2848

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  • recognizing that \unpublished BIA decisions carry no precedential value\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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Judges: Thompson, Selya, Lipez

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