Earls v. Arkansas Department of Human Services

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• finding that nexus existed when a local gang persecuted the petitioner because the gang leader wanted the petitioner’s wife
• relying on Hernandez-Avalos in reversing the BIA’s determination that a man’s persecution did not have nexus to the proposed social group of his wife’s family
• “We and other circuits have recognized that membership in a nu- clear family can satisfy the social group requirement.”
• husband’s family relationship to his wife was “the reason he, and not someone else, was targeted” (citing Hernandez-Avalos v. Lynch, 784 F.3d 944, 950 (4th Cir. 2015))
• where the petitioner was persecuted because a gang member was romantically interested in the petitioner’s wife, the nexus to a family-based PSG was established by the fact that the persecutors’ “stated purpose” was “destroying [the wife’s] family”
• internal quo- 16Petitioner’s Br. 15. An individual is eligible for asylum if he is desig- nated as a “refugee.” 8 U.S.C. § 1158(b)(1)(B)(i) explains: The burden of proof is on the applicant to establish that the applicant is a refugee, within the meaning of section 1101(a)(42

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