Gonzalez-Medina v. Holder

OPINION

McKEOWN, Circuit Judge:

Porfiria Gonzalez-Medina, a native and citizen of Mexico, petitions for review of the decision by the Board of Immigration Appeals (“BIA”) affirming an immigration judge’s (“IJ”) final order of removal, denying her claims for asylum and withholding of removal. In her petition, Gonzalez-Medina raises two issues of first impression: whether applying the one-year filing deadline to her asylum application violates the Equal Protection Clause, and whether domestic abuse that occurs in the United States can constitute past persecution. Although we are very sympathetic…