In re the Claim of Steele

How courts have described this case

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• finding that country profiles submitted by the Department of State are entitled to considerable deference in the absence of contradictory evidence
• finding no persecution on account of a protected ground where “the NPA’s practice of securing financial support by the threats of force and actual harm [was] motivated by the victim’s wealth, not the victim’s political opinion”
• “Determinations of ‘reasonableness’ include consideration of likely financial or logistical barriers to internal relocation....”
• an applicant for asylum must show “that the harm was motivated, at least in part, by an actual or imputed protected ground”

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