De Santamaria v. U.S. Attorney General

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• concluding that physical injury is not required to establish past persecution, as an alien may demonstrate past persecution through threats combined with other serious mistreatment
• holding that substantial evidence did not support the BIA’s denial where “the record reflect[ed] that Santamaria’s attackers made painfully clear that their motivation for their threats and violence . . . was her support of the Colombian government”
• concluding that an applicant established past persecution when she suffered repeated death threats, two physical attacks which resulted in minor physical injuries, the murder of a family friend who would not give up her whereabouts, and “a kidnapping cut short only by a harrowing escape”
• finding perse- cution when noncitizen was dragged from her car by the hair, “beaten, kidnapped, and warned of her imminent murder”
• involving repeated death threats, torture and murder of petitioner’s groundskeeper, assault resulting in hospitalization, kidnapping and beating with guns resulting in hospitalization
• finding past persecution where the applicant suffered “repeated death threats, two physical attacks [which resulted in minor physical injuries], the murder of a family friend, and a kidnaping cut short only by a harrowing escape”

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