VAZQUEZ-GUERRA v. GARLAND

No. 18-60828.

7 F.4th 265 (2021)

Edith Nohemi VAZQUEZ-GUERRA; Wendy Chantal Barragan-Vazquez, Petitioners, v. Merrick GARLAND, U.S. Attorney General, Respondent.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

Filed July 29, 2021.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Raed Gonzalez, Esq. , Senior Attorney, Ross Alan Miller , Gonzalez Olivieri, L.L.C., Amanda Waterhouse , Waterhouse Dominguez & Strom, P.L.L.C., Houston, TX, for Petitioners.

Scott Michael Marconda, Esq. , Trial Attorney, U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Immigration Litigation, Civil Division, Washington, DC, for Respondent.

Before Smith, Graves, and Ho, Circuit Judges.


Edith Vazquez-Guerra is a Mexican citizen who seeks asylum and withholding of removal for herself and her minor daughter, Wendy Barragan-Vazquez. Her application expressed a fear that, if she were returned to Mexico, she would be killed or tortured by the Zetas, a Mexican drug cartel, on account of her membership in a...

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