· 7/28/2009
Marroquin-Ochoma v. Holder
Citations
- 574 F.3d 574
- 2009 WL 2225808
How courts have described this case
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- concluding that a general political motive underlying a gang’s actions is insufficient to show the gang believes resistance to those actions is based on an anti- gang political opinion
- upholding determination that petitioner who received threats after refusing to join gang, without more, was not persecuted on account of an anti-gang political opinion
- denying asylum to a petitioner who left Guatemala because gang members threatened and pressured her to join the gang
- mere refusal to join gang, without more, does not compel finding that gang’s threats were on account of imputed political opinion
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Judges: Murphy, Melloy, Shepherd
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