Luz Marina Silva v. U.S. Attorney General

I dissent from the decision to deny Ms. Silva’s petition for review of the order of removal, which is based on the denial of her application for asylum.

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The question is not whether the immigration judge should have found the statements Silva made in her asylum application and hearing testimony to be credible. The judge did credit her statements. Because he did, the law requires that we, too, accept Silva’s statements as truth. Yang v. U.S. Att’y Gen., 418 F.3d 1198, 1201 (11th Cir.2005); Vasquez-Mondmgon v. INS, 560 F.2d 1225, 1226 (5th Cir.1977). In reviewing a denial of asylum where the…