VICENTE-ELIAS v. MUKASEY

Nos. 07-9542, 07-9545.

532 F.3d 1086 (2008)

Arturo VICENTE-ELIAS, Petitioner, v. Michael B. MUKASEY, United States Attorney General, Respondent. Jaime Vicente-Lopez, Petitioner, v. Michael B. Mukasey, United States Attorney General, Respondent.

United States Court of Appeals, Tenth Circuit.

July 11, 2008.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Submitted on the briefs:* Jim Salvator, of Lafayette, CO, for Petitioners.

Mark C. Walters, Assistant Director, and Peter H. Matson, Trial Attorney, Office of Immigration Litigation, Civil Division, United States Department of Justice, Washington, D.C., for Respondent.

Michelle G. Latour, Assistant Director, and R. Alexander Goring, Trial Attorney, Office of Immigration Litigation, Civil Division, United States Department of Justice, Washington, D.C., for Respondent.

Before McCONNELL, ANDERSON, and BRORBY, Circuit Judges.


BRORBY, Circuit Judge.

Arturo Vicente-Elias and Jaime Vicente-Lopez petition for review of final orders for their removal to Guatemala. These cases involve very similar facts and legal issues and we have elected to resolve them together in a single decision. As explained below, we deny both petitions for review.

Mr. Vicente-Elias applied for asylum, restriction on removal, and relief under the Convention Against Torture (CAT). After an Immigration Judge denied...

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