VEGA-AYALA v. LYNCH

No. 15-2114.

833 F.3d 34 (2016)

Yesenia Del Carmen VEGA-AYALA, Petitioner, v. Loretta E. LYNCH, Attorney General of the United States, Respondent.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

August 10, 2016.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Kevin MacMurray and MacMurray & Associates on brief for petitioner.

Colin J. Tucker , Trial Attorney, Office of Immigration Litigation, Civil Division, U.S. Department of Justice, Benjamin C. Mizer , Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General, Civil Division, and Terri J. Scadron , Assistant Director, Office of Immigration Litigation, on brief for respondent.

Before Lynch, Thompson, and Kayatta, Circuit Judges.


Yesenia del Carmen Vega-Ayala petitions for review of the Board of Immigration Appeals' ("BIA") affirmance of an immigration judge's ("IJ") denial of her application for asylum and withholding of removal. Vega-Ayala argued that she had suffered past persecution in El Salvador and that she had a well-founded fear of future persecution...

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