Lopez De Hincapie v. Gonzales

How courts have described this case

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• explaining that membership in a well-to-do family, attractive to criminals, does not lay the groundwork for a claim of persecution
• explaining that an alien must do more than merely express a belief that incidents were due to a statutorily protected ground in order to establish a proper nexus
• explaining that an alien must do more than merely express a belief that incidents were due to a statutorily protected ground in order to establish a proper nexus
• noting that the nexus requirement is common to the tests for both asylum and withholding of removal
• \[S]howing a linkage to one of the five statutorily protected grounds [including religion] is 'critical' to a successful asylum claim.\ (quoting INS v. Elias-Zacarias, 502 U.S. 478, 483 (1992))
• rejecting social group claim where the evidence suggested that the petitioner was targeted “because of greed,” not because of her family membership

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).