Jorge Barillas-Mendez v. Loretta E. Lynch

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• explaining that persecution excludes “minor beatings” and “low-level intimidation and harassment”
• where petitioner never argued to agency that alleged economic deprivation constituted persecution alone or in combination with other harms, concluding issue was unexhausted
• first quoting Regalado-Garcia v. INS, 305 F.3d 784, 787 (8th Cir. 2002), then quoting Alavez-Hernandez v. Holder, 714 F.3d 1063, 1067 (8th Cir. 2013)
• persecution is extreme concept that excludes low-level intimidation and harassment, and isolated violence

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