Legal Opinion
Rivera-Coca v. Lynch
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided December 30, 2016No. 16-1115PPublishedCited by 10 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SELYA, Circuit Judge.
The petitioner, German Donaldo Rivera-Coca, is a Honduran national. He seeks judicial review of a final order of the Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA), which denied his application for asylum and withholding of removal. Concluding, as we do, that the BIA’s order is supported by substantial evidence, we deny the petition.
I. BACKGROUND
We rehearse the facts as recounted by the petitioner and then limn the travel of the case. The petitioner owned a small accounting firm in Puerto Cortes, Honduras, which frequently did business with that nation’s Liberal Party (though the…
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