Katherine Hopkins and Christopher Gueta v. Robert Michael Phillips

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• requiring a showing of nexus for both asylum and withholding claims based on political opinion
• describing the requirements for asylum and withholding of removal
• “Where the BIA conducts its own review of the evidence and law, rather than adopting the IJ’s decision, our review is limited to the BIA’s decision, except to the extent the IJ’s opinion is expressly adopted.” (quoting Rodriguez v. Holder, 683 F.3d 1164, 1169 (9th Cir. 2012))

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).