Garcia v. Mexico

How courts have described this case

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• identifying three-factor standard to determine whether retaliation for whistleblow-ing amounts to persecution on account of a political opinion
• discussing three-factor test set forth by Matter of N-M-, 25 I. & N. Dec. 526, 532-33 (BIA 2011) for determining whether retaliation for whistleblowing constitutes persecution on account of political opinion
• “Where persecution did not occur on account of a protected ground . . . claims for . . . withholding of removal necessarily fail.”
• “Where persecution did not occur on account of a protected ground, … claims for … withholding of removal necessarily fail.”
• “The petitioner has the burden to prove that a nexus exists between the persecution and a protected ground.”
• “The petitioner has the burden to prove that a nexus exists between the persecution and a protected ground.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).