Ramirez-Peyro v. Holder

MELLOY, Circuit Judge.

This case involves the U.S. government’s repeated efforts to remove from the country a former drug informant who has helped the government successfully prosecute and imprison several high-profile Mexican drug traffickers at great risk to his own life. Guillermo Ramirez Peyro, a Mexican native and citizen, petitions for review of the decision of the Board of Immigration Appeals (“BIA”) to deny him deferred removal under the Convention Against Torture (“CAT”). Ramirez Peyro claims that the BIA improperly interpreted one of the CAT’s implementing regulations, 8 C.F.R. §…