LOPEZ-LOPEZ v. SESSIONS

No. 17-1907.

885 F.3d 49 (2018)

Rony LOPEZ-LOPEZ, Petitioner, v. Jefferson B. SESSIONS, III, Attorney General, Respondent.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

March 16, 2018.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Kevin P. MacMurray , Daniel W. Chin , and MacMurray & Associates on brief for petitioner.

David Kim , Trial Attorney, Office of Immigration Litigation, Civil Division, U.S. Department of Justice, Chad A. Readler , Acting Assistant Attorney General, and Kohsei Ugumori , Senior Litigation Counsel, Office of Immigration Litigation, on brief for respondent.

Before Lynch, Circuit Judge, Souter, Associate Justice, and Kayatta, Circuit Judge.


We deny Rony Lopez-Lopez's petition for review because there was substantial evidence before the IJ and BIA that Lopez-Lopez had failed to meet his burden to establish a nexus between his alleged persecution and a statutorily protected ground.

In April 2013, the Department of Homeland Security served Lopez-Lopez, a...

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