Sofyan Ali Saleh v. United States Department of Justice, Immigration and Naturalization Service

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• holding that “poor” Yemeni Muslims are not a 15 particular social group because the group “posses[es] 16 broadly-based characteristics”
• holding that “poor” Yemeni Muslims are 2 not a particular social group because the group “possess[es] 3 broadly-based characteristics”
• concluding counsel was not ineffective for failing to request an interpreter where alien said he understood English and \testified extensively in English\
• rejecting the financial inability to ʺpay[] blood money to the victimʹs 7 familyʺ as the defining characteristic of a social group facing persecution on a protected 8 ground (internal quotation marks omitted)
• Yemeni Muslim convicted of manslaughter in United States could be deported despite fact that he had been convicted in absentia in Yemen and faced a death penalty
• “Punishment for 20 violation of a generally applicable criminal law is not 21 persecution.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).