Cruz-Funez v. Ashcroft

How courts have described this case

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• concluding that IJ did not err in finding existence of a “private vendetta” rather than “acquiescence of a public official”
• holding that evidence of government corruption and underfunding 11 of police was insufficient to compel a conclusion of government acquiescence to criminal activity by a private individual
• holding that evidence of 8 government corruption and underfunding of police was insufficient to compel a conclusion of government acquiescence to criminal activity by a private individual
• explaining that government officials acquiesce to torture when they have actual knowledge of or turn a blind eye to torture
• consulting an IJ opinion in the face of a “somewhat mystifying” (e)(5) order
• “Being indebted to the same creditor (unscrupulous or not) is not the kind of group characteris- tic that a person either cannot change or should not be required to change.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).