Ndayshimiye v. Attorney General of the United States

How courts have described this case

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• holding that protected ground must play more than “an incidental, tangential, or superficial role in persecution” to qualify non-citizen for asylum
• finding that threats referring to an alien’s nationality were incidental to a personal land dispute, particularly where there was no conflict until the dispute arose
• affirming BIA despite its failure to consider a “social group” claim where BIA properly concluded that the social group background played no central role in persecution
• “[A] key task for any asylum applicant is to show a sufficient ‘nexus’ between persecution and one of the listed protected grounds.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).