BARNICA-LOPEZ v. GARLAND

No. 21-1313.

59 F.4th 520 (2023)

Brenda BARNICA-LOPEZ; Ashley Nicole Lopez-Barnica, Petitioners, v. Merrick B. GARLAND, Attorney General, Respondent.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

February 8, 2023.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Kevin P. MacMurray , Daniel T. Welch , and MacMurray & Associates LLC on brief for petitioners.

Brian M. Boynton , Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General, Civil Division, U.S. Department of Justice, Anthony C. Payne , Assistant Director, Office of Immigration Litigation, and Alexander J. Lutz , Trial Attorney, Office of Immigration Litigation, on brief for respondent.

Before Selya, Lynch, and Howard, Circuit Judges.


Petitioners Brenda Barnica-Lopez ("Barnica") and her daughter, Ashley Nicole Lopez-Barnica ("Ashley"), both natives and citizens of Honduras, petition for review of a final order of the Board of Immigration Appeals ("BIA"), which upheld an immigration judge's ("IJ") denial of their request for asylum, withholding of removal...

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