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RODRÍGUEZ-VILLAR v. BARR

No. 18-1861.

930 F.3d 24 (2019)

Flemi Barnodis RODRÍGUEZ-VILLAR, Petitioner, v. William P. BARR, Attorney General, Respondent.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

July 11, 2019.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Kevin MacMurray and MacMurray & Associates on brief for petitioner.

Joseph H. Hunt , Assistant Attorney General, Civil Division, U.S. Department of Justice, Jessica E. Burns , Senior Litigation Counsel, Office of Immigration Litigation, and John F. Stanton , Trial Attorney, Office of Immigration Litigation, on brief for respondent.

Before Howard, Chief Judge, Torruella and Selya, Circuit Judges.

It is bad enough when acts in the nature of persecution are employed to chill the free expression of political opinion. It exacerbates the problem though, when a reviewing tribunal turns such acts upside down and heralds their chilling effect as "proof" that no likelihood of persecution exists. Because the agency's decision...

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