Jose Duran-Rodriguez v. William Barr

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• holding that threats by phone and in person, without accompanying acts of violence, did not compel finding past persecution
• holding that threats over the course of two days by phone and in person, without acts of violence, did not compel finding past persecution
• holding that substantial evidence supported the BIA’s determination of no past persecution where the petitioner was threatened by armed cartel members but was not harmed
• holding that two death threats did not compel a determination that petitioner had suffered past persecution
• holding that threats by phone and in person, without accompanying acts of violence, did not compel finding past persecution
• holding that threats alone “constitute persecution in only a small category of cases,” typically where the threats are “repeated, specific and combined with confrontation or other mistreatment”

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