Elisida Zavala-Bonilla v. Immigration and Naturalization Service

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• holding that the BIA's failure to consider factors pertinent to the hardship determination is abuse of discretion
• reasoning that the petitioner’s co-workers, who wrote unsworn, un-notarized letters on behalf of the applicant “undoubtedly placed themselves at risk merely by writing”
• finding error for BIA to “disregard[] general accounts of oppressive conditions” that indicate that similarly-situated individuals are subject to harm
• rejecting BIA’s determination that applicant’s testimony was not credible, “[d]espite a confusing series of questions, objections, translations, and answers”
• rejecting the inference that petitioner’s “friends in El Salvador would tend to write supportive letters” to be a basis to denigrate the credibility of the letters
• alien “could hardly ask the authorities in El Salvador to certify that she would be persecuted should she return”

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