Diego F. Castillo-Arias v. U.S. Attorney General

How courts have described this case

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• concluding that noncriminal informants working against a drug cartel were not members of a particular social group
• concluding that no social group exists when at the core the unifying trait of “noncriminal informants” was merely “persecution by the cartel”
• holding that we must follow the BIA’s interpretation that a proposed social group does not qualify as a “particular social group,” unless the interpretation is unreasonable
• explaining that the BIA first formulated the criteria in Matter of Acosta, 19 I. & N. Dec. 211, 233-34 (BIA 1985)
• concluding noncriminal informants working against a drug cartel did not constitute a particular social group under the INA
• explaining that Colombian informants are not a “particular social group” because their “defining attribute is their persecution by the cartel”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).