PAIZ-MORALES v. LYNCH

No. 14-1182.

795 F.3d 238 (2015)

Elmer Humberto PAIZ-MORALES, Petitioner, v. Loretta E. LYNCH, United States Attorney General, Respondent.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

July 29, 2015.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Lydia M. Sanchez on brief for petitioner.

Sui P. Wong , Trial Attorney, Office of Immigration Litigation, United States Department of Justice Civil Division, with whom Joyce R. Branda , Acting Assistant Attorney General, and Anthony W. Norwood , Senior Litigation Counsel, were on brief, for respondent.

Before HOWARD, Chief Judge, THOMPSON and BARRON, Circuit Judges.


Petitioner Elmer Humberto Paiz-Morales, a native of Guatemala who entered the United States unlawfully in 1993, appeals from the Board of Immigration Appeals's ("BIA") decision affirming an Immigration Judge's ("IJ") denial of his application for asylum and withholding of removal.1 For the reasons...

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