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SORTO-GUZMAN v. GARLAND

No. 20-1762.

42 F.4th 443 (2022)

Zoila Beatriz SORTO-GUZMAN; Axel David Rivas-Sorto, Petitioners, v. Merrick B. GARLAND, Attorney General, Respondent.

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Decided: August 3, 2022.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

ARGUED: Jeremy Layne McKinney, MCKINNEY IMMIGRATION LAW, Greensboro, North Carolina, for Petitioners. Paul Fiorino, UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE, Washington, D.C., for Respondent. ON BRIEF: Jeffrey B. Widdison, MCKINNEY IMMIGRATION LAW, Wilmington, North Carolina, for Petitioners. Jeffrey C. Bossert, Acting Assistant Attorney General, Carl H. McIntyre, Jr., Assistant Director, Office of Immigration Litigation, Civil Division, UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE, Washington, D.C., for Respondent.

Petition granted and remanded by published opinion. Senior Judge Floyd wrote the opinion in which Judge King and Judge Wynn joined.

Petitioners Zoila Sorto-Guzman and Axel Rivas-Sorto, a twenty-three-year-old mother and her seven-year-old son, respectively, seek asylum in the United States after fleeing El Salvador following death threats and violence at the hands of the Mara 18 gang due to Sorto-Guzman's Catholic religion. An immigration judge ...

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