Hammond v. Fluvanna Enters., LLC

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• holding that a social group “cannot be defined solely by the fact that its members suffer persecution from the government or from a group that the government cannot or will not control”
• instructing that we cannot tease out one component of the group’s characteristics to defeat the defini- tion of social group
• instructing that we cannot tease out one component of the group’s characteristics to defeat the definition of social group
• noting that “[w]here a proposed group is defined only by the characteristic that it is persecuted, it does not qualify, as a ‘social group’”
• instructing that we cannot tease out one component of the group’s characteristics to defeat the definition of social group.
• instructing that we 8 No. 11-1989 cannot tease out one component of the group’s charac- teristics to defeat the definition of social group.

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