Manuel Jorge-Tzoc v. Alberto Gonzales, U.S. Attorney General, U.S. Department of Justice

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• concluding that the petitioner suffered persecution where he “was a child [of seven] at the time of the massacres ... and thus necessarily dependant on both his family and his community” to an extent that an adult is not
• finding that an asylum applicant who had not been present at or directly victimized by a village massacre may have nonetheless experienced past persecution
• finding, inter alia, that IJ erred when she failed to take into account Report's findings
• explaining that, though the petitioner was never victimized directly, the combination of circumstances that might not suffice for an adult “could well constitute persecution to a small child totally dependent on his family and community” (citation omitted)
• remanding for agency to consider whether evidence, viewed cumulatively, demonstrated “pervasive campaign” of ethnic violence against petitioner’s family
• assessing past persecution of adult applicant that occurred when applicant was seven years old, over a decade before he fled his country

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