Leticia Cordon-Garcia v. Immigration and Naturalization Service

How courts have described this case

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• holding “Petitioner’s testimonial evidence,” which consisted of “hearsay, and, at times, hearsay upon hearsay,” sufficient to support the presumption that petitioner had a well-founded fear of future persecution
• relying upon petitioner’s evidence, obtained only after the petitioner departed her home country, to find that petitioner established a well-founded fear of future persecution
• reversing BIA’s determination that persecution was not on account of political opinion where victim’s actions “demonstrated to the [persecutor] that she planned to continue alignment with a cause obviously at odds with [his] goals”
• reversing BIA’s determination that persecution was not on account of political opinion where victim’s actions “demonstrated to the [persecutor] that she planned to continue alignment with a cause obviously at odds with [his] goals”
• holding petitioner bears the burden of proof
• “Once again, we strongly encourage the BIA to discuss or expressly adopt, rather than ignore, the IJ’s credibility findings in an asylum case.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).