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· 4/6/2010

Delgado-Ortiz v. Holder

Citations

  • 600 F.3d 1148
  • 2010 U.S. App. LEXIS 7125
  • 2010 WL 1435068

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

  • holding that \returning Mexicans from the United States” are \too broad” to qualify as a particular social group
  • holding that generalized country conditions evidence of violence and crime that is not particular to the applicant does not establish CAT eligibility
  • holding that generalized evidence of violence and crime that is not particular to petitioner is insufficient to meet the standard for CAT protection
  • holding that “[a]sylum is not available to victims of indiscriminate violence, unless they are singled out on account of a protected ground”
  • holding that proposed social group of Mexicans returning from the United States “is too broad to qualify as a cognizable social group”
  • holding that generalized evidence of crime in Mexico was insufficient to establish prima facie eligibility for CAT protection

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Judges: Canby, Gould, Tallman

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