ZEPEDA-LOPEZ v. GARLAND

Docket No. 19-145-ag August Term 2021.

38 F.4th 315 (2022)

Carlos Alexander ZEPEDA-LOPEZ, Karla Argentina Zepeda-Lopez, Melissa Isabel Zepeda-Lopez, Wuendy Yessenia Rodriguez-Cerda, Melissa Alexandra Zepeda-Rodriguez, Ansony Emmanuel Aguilar-Castro, Petitioners, v. Merrick B. GARLAND, United States Attorney General, Respondent.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided: June 28, 2022.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Christina Colón Williams , Esperanza Center for Law & Advocacy, Norwalk, CT, for Petitioners.

Monica G. Antoun , Trial Attorney ( Brian Boynton , Acting Assistant Attorney General, Shelley R. Goad , Assistant Director, on the brief), Office of Immigration Litigation, United States Department of Justice, Washington, DC, for Respondent.

Jon Bauer , Asylum and Human Rights Clinic, University of Connecticut School of Law, Hartford, CT, for Amici Curiae HIAS, International Refugee Assistance Project, Asylum Seeker Advocacy Project, and Integrated Refugee & Immigrant Services, in support of Petitioners.

Before: Livingston, Chief Judge, and Chin and Nardini, Circuit Judges.


Petitioners seek review of a December 14, 2018, decision of the Board of Immigration Appeals (the "BIA") affirming a decision of an Immigration Judge (the "IJ") denying asylum, withholding of removal, and relief under the Convention Against Torture ("CAT") to petitioners Carlos Alexander Zepeda-Lopez ("Carlos"), Karla Argentina...

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