Francisco Mendoza-Alvarez v. Eric H. Holder Jr.

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• holding that groups that “include large numbers of people with different conditions and in different circumstances” and “sweep up a large and disparate population” lack particularity
• holding that the applicant’s proposed social groups were not particular because they “include[d] large numbers of people with different conditions and in different circumstances” and “swe[pt] up a large and disparate population”
• finding that the petitioner’s proposed group of “insulin-dependent persons with mental- health problems” was not sufficiently “particular”
• noting that the particularity requirement considers whether the group’s boundaries are too amorphous to be considered a social group
• concluding proposed social group of “[i]ndividuals who need but cannot obtain life-sustaining medication, including insulin, because of poverty, inability to work, or lack of insurance” was not particular because it swept up “people with different conditions and in different circumstances”
• “‘The lack of access to mental health treatment alone, however, does not create a well-founded fear of persecution.’” (citation omitted)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).