JACO v. GARLAND

No. 20-60081.

24 F.4th 395 (2021)

Gleidy Yessenia JACO; Cristofer Alejandro Portillo Jaco, Petitioners, v. Merrick GARLAND, U.S. Attorney General, Respondent.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

Revised January 26, 2022.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Blaine Bookey , Anne Dutton , UC Hastings College of the Law, Center for Gender & Refugee Studies, San Francisco, CA, for Petitioners.

Robbin Kinmonth Blaya, Esq. , Trial Attorney, U.S. Department of Justice, Civil Division, Washington, DC, Office of Immigration Litigation, U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Immigration Litigation, Washington, DC, for Respondent.

Before Jolly, Elrod, and Oldham, Circuit Judges.


Appellant Gleidy Yessenia Jaco is an immigrant from Honduras seeking asylum, withholding of removal, and protection under the Convention Against Torture (CAT). Her child seeks derivative asylum. After both the Immigration Judge (IJ) and the Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA) denied her claims, Jaco filed a ...

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