Legal Opinion
Eliu Cinto-Velasquez v. Loretta E. Lynch
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided March 25, 2016No. 15-1198PublishedCited by 7 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
LOKEN, Circuit Judge.
Eliu Jeremías Cinto-Velasquez, a native of Guatemala, entered the United States without inspection in 1993 and applied for asylum, withholding of removal, and relief under the Convention Against Torture (CAT) in November 1993. He returned to Guatemala in 2005 and illegally reentered the United States two years later. Removal proceedings resumed. Cinto-Velas-quez petitions for review of the decision of the Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA) denying him asylum and voluntary departure. 1 Concluding there is substantial evidence in the administrative record supporting the…
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