Eldin Jacobo Escobar v. Alberto Gonzales, Attorney General of the United States

How courts have described this case

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• finding that characteristics such as “[p]overty, homelessness and youth are far too vague and all encompassing to be characteristics that set the perimeters for a protected group”
• rejecting PSG defined as “Honduran street children” because “[p]overty, homelessness and youth are far too vague and all encompassing to be characteristics that set the perimeters for a protected group”
• rejecting “street children” as a particular social group because “[p]overty, homelessness and youth are far too vague and all encompassing to be characteristics that set the perimeters for a protected group”
• “The persecution cannot be what defines the contours of the group.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).