Crespin-Valladares v. Holder

How courts have described this case

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• holding that agency commits legal error by \reject[ing] a group different from that which the [applicant] proposed\
• concluding that a group comprised of family members of those who testified against MS-13 was a cognizable particular social group
• holding that Chevron deference should be accorded to the BIA’s long-standing interpretation of “particular social group.”
• concluding that family members of witnesses who testify against MS-13 gang members constitute particular social group
• acknowledging that the BIA erred when it considered an incorrect proposed particular social group rather than the one asserted by the petitioner
• explaining that issue of persecutor’s motive was not legal ruling that would authorize de novo review

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).