Legal Opinion
Ferreira v. Lynch
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided July 12, 2016No. 15-2603PublishedCited by 12 opinions
1Per curiam
Ana Veronica Jimenez Ferreira, a 40-year-old native and citizen of the Dominican Republic, applied for asylum and withholding of removal based on her membership in a social group that she describes as Dominican women in relationships they cannot leave. Jimenez testified in immigration court that she fled to the United States because the. government of her home country would not protect her from her common-law husband, who had raped, beaten, and kidnapped her, and who continually stalked her and threatened to kill her and her two children. The immigration judge denied relief on the grounds…
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