Soriano v. Holder

How courts have described this case

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• concluding that government informants do not qualify as a social group
• holding mere “opposition to organized crime” does not constitute a political opinion
• finding informing the police about gang activities insufficient to show actual or imputed political opinion
• distinguishing “personal animosity” from well-founded fear of persecution and concluding that “[p]etitioner’s fear of future persecution stems from the criminals’ motive to retaliate against him for informing on them”
• upholding the BIA’s no-nexus determination when the “persecution stem[med] from the criminals’ motive to retaliate against [petitioner] for informing on them,” because such motive amounted to “[p]ersonal animosity . . . not political opinion”
• stating standards for the denial of CAT relief

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).