Legal Opinion

Gomez-Zuluaga v. Attorney General of the United States

Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit

Decided May 30, 2008No. 07-2674PublishedCited by 119 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

OPINION OF THE COURT

FISHER, Circuit Judge.

Claudia Rocio Gomez Zuluaga (“Petitioner”) 1 seeks review of an order of the Board of Immigration Appeals (“BIA”) affirming the denial of her request for asylum, withholding of removal, and relief under the Convention Against Torture (“CAT”). For the reasons that follow, we will grant the petition in part and deny it in part.

I. BACKGROUND

Petitioner, a native and citizen of Colombia, was born on July 3, 1987, in a rural region near San Francisco, Colombia. During most of her life, the Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia (“FARC”), a leftist…

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