AYALA v. HOLDER

No. 11-1737.

683 F.3d 15 (2012)

Maria AYALA, Petitioner, v. Eric H. HOLDER, Jr., Attorney General, Respondent.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Decided June 27, 2012.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Stephen M. Born and Mills and Born, Attorneys at Law on brief for petitioner.

Tony West , Assistant Attorney General, Civil Division, Ernesto H. Molina, Jr. , Assistant Director, and Joanna L. Watson , Trial Attorney, Office of Immigration Litigation, on brief for respondent.

Before LYNCH, Chief Judge, SELYA and THOMPSON, Circuit Judges.


THOMPSON, Circuit Judge.

Maria Ayala, a Guatemalan native, petitions for review of a final removal order. She argues that the immigration courts committed several legal errors when they denied her asylum petition. We agree with the immigration courts, however, that Ayala is not eligible for asylum because she has proven neither past persecution nor any likelihood of future persecution on account of a protected ground. These conclusions sink Ayala's asylum claim and...

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