Edin Avendano-Hernandez v. Loretta E. Lynch

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• holding that an applicant’s rape by public officials was a “way of showing” the requisite “government involvement in a [Torture Convention] applicant’s torture”
• noting that past torture “is ordinarily the principal factor” to support a CAT claim unless there are “changed circumstances”
• upholding the BIA’s finding that a conviction for DUI that resulted in bodily injury to another was a particularly serious crime
• noting “police specifically target the transgender community for extortion and sexual favors, and [] Mexico suffers from an epidemic of unsolved violent crimes against transgender persons”
• “[T]he BIA may determine that [a DUI] offense constitutes a particularly serious crime on a case-by-case basis[.]”
• Review “is limited to ensuring that the agency relied on the appropriate factors and proper evidence to reach [its] conclusion.” (internal quotations omitted)

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