AVELAR GONZALEZ v. WHITAKER

No. 18-1122.

908 F.3d 820 (2018)

Francisco AVELAR GONZALEZ, Petitioner, v. Matthew G. WHITAKER, Acting Attorney General, Respondent.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

November 15, 2018.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Carlos E. Estrada , Ashley M. Barkoudah , and Estrada Law Office on brief for petitioner.

Maarja T. Luhtaru , Trial Attorney, Civil Division, U.S. Department of Justice, Chad A. Readler , Acting Assistant Attorney General, Civil Division, and Rachel L. Browning , Acting Senior Litigation Counsel, Office of Immigration Litigation, on brief for respondent.

Before Lynch, Stahl, and Lipez, Circuit Judges.


Francisco Avelar-Gonzalez, a native and citizen of El Salvador, seeks judicial review of a Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA) decision affirming an Immigration Judge's (IJ) denial of Avelar-Gonzalez's requests for asylum under the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) § 208(a), 8 U.S.C. § 1158(a), for withholding...

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