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ESPINOSA-CORTEZ v. ATTORNEY GENERAL OF U.S.

No. 08-4170.

607 F.3d 101 (2010)

Marco Tulio ESPINOSA-CORTEZ, Luz Marino Lopez-Tibaduiza, & Ximena Del Pilar Espinosa-Lopez, Petitioners v. ATTORNEY GENERAL OF the UNITED STATES, Respondent.

United States Court of Appeals, Third Circuit.

Opinion Filed June 2, 2010.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Peter M. Rogers, Esq. [Argued], Rogers & Rogers, P.C., Pittsburgh, PA, for Petitioners.

Dalin R. Holyoak, Esq. [Argued], Kristen Giuffreda Chapman, Esq., Regina Byrd, Esq., Francis W. Fraser, I, Esq., United States Department of Justice, Office of Immigration Litigation, Civil Division, Washington, DC, for Respondent.

Before RENDELL, AMBRO, and FUENTES, Circuit Judges.

OPINION OF THE COURT

FUENTES, Circuit Judge:

Marco Tulio Espinosa-Cortez, his wife, Luz, and his adult daughter, Ximena, are natives and citizens of Colombia. Between 2002 and 2003, the Espinosa-Cortez family was repeatedly threatened by agents of the Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia ("FARC") in an effort to coerce Espinosa-Cortez, who had close connections to the Colombian government and military, into becoming a FARC informant. Once it became...

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