Mark Stephen Gomes Sworna Jacinta Gomes Methew Gomes v. Alberto R. Gonzales, Attorney General

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• holding that weekly harassment by gang members on the way to religious services did not “rise to the level of persecution”
• concluding that a previous successful internal relocation undermined a claim of an inability to safely relocate
• holding that the fact that petitioner previously relocated to area within his native country and lived without incident is evidence that an alien can safely relocate
• concluding that the BIA did not abuse its discretion in finding that the Bangladeshi government was not unable or unwilling to stop private persecution when it “did not countenance attacks . . . and intervened in such attacks to the extent that it was able”
• rejecting a pattern and practice claim because the State Department’s Country Reports on Human Rights noted that “the Bangladesh government did not countenance attacks against Christians and intervened in such attacks to the extent that it was able”
• lack of persecution after relocation supported finding that petitioners could relocate again safely

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).