Legal Opinion

Amador Martinez Carrasco v. Loretta E. Lynch

Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit

Decided February 16, 2017No. 16-2133Unpublished

1Per curiam

Mexican citizen Amador Martinez Car-rasco petitions for review of an order of the Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA) upholding an immigration judge’s (IJ’s) denial of withholding of removal. Where, as here, the BIA adopts and affirms the IJ’s decision, but adds its own reasoning, this court reviews both the BIA’s and IJ’s decisions together. See Garcia-Milian v. Lynch, 825 F.3d 943, 945 (8th Cir. 2016) (decisions are reviewed to determine if they are supported by substantial evidence, and are reversed only if petitioner shows that evidence was so compelling that no reasonable factfinder could…

2Cases cited2 opinions

  1. Sulmy Garcia-Milian v. Loretta E. LynchCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 2016
  2. Inoel Gonzalez Cano v. Loretta E. LynchCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 2016

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