Hernandez Lima v. Lynch

Ronaldo Hernandez-Lima petitions for review of the Board of Immigration Appeals’ (“BIA”) decision to dismiss his appeal of an immigration judge’s (“Í J”) denial of his application for withholding of removal. Hernandez-Lima argued that he suffered past persecution and faced a clear probability of future persecution in Guatemala through threats, violence, and extortion on account of both his political opinion and his membership in a particular social group. He defined his political opinion with reference to his participation in the Democratic Christian Party’s (“DCP”) campaign around 1998 or…