GOMEZ-RIVERA v. SESSIONS

No. 17-1653.

897 F.3d 995 (2018)

Bryan Alexander GOMEZ-RIVERA Petitioner v. Jefferson B. SESSIONS, III, Attorney General of the United States Respondent.

United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.

Filed: July 31, 2018.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Counsel who presented argument on behalf of the petitioner were Timothy Sanders Szabo and Alexis Dutt, law students at the University of Minnesota Law School. The following attorneys appeared on petitioner's brief: Jeffrey P. Justman , Minneapolis, MN, Julia Decker , Saint Paul, MN, and Benjamin Casper Sanchez , University of Minnesota Law School, Minneapolis, MN.

Counsel who presented argument on behalf of the respondent was Margot Carter, OIL, Civil Division, U.S. Dept. of Justice, Washington, DC. The following attorney appeared on respondent's brief: Virginia L. Gordon , OIL, Civil Division, U.S. Dept. of Justice, Washington, DC.

Before SHEPHERD, KELLY, and GRASZ, Circuit Judges.


Bryan Alexander Gomez-Rivera, a native and citizen of El Salvador, petitions for review of an order of the Board of Immigration Appeals ("BIA") upholding an immigration judge's ("IJ") denial of his applications for asylum and withholding of removal. We affirm.

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