Legal Opinion
Delmy Carolina Gomez-Garcia v. Jefferson B. Sessions, III
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided June 28, 2017No. 16-1913PublishedCited by 5 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MELLOY, Circuit Judge.
Delmy Carolina Gomez-Garcia petitions for review of the Board of Immigration Appeals’s (“BIA”) decision affirming the immigration judge’s (“IJ”) denial of Gomez-Garcia’s request for asylum. 2 For the following reasons, we deny the petition.
I
Gomez-Garcia is a native and citizen of El Salvador. She unlawfully entered the United States on April 5, 2014. After the Department of Homeland Security issued a notice to appear, Gomez-Garcia conceded her removability and filed an application for asylum.
In a hearing before an IJ, Gomez-Garcia testified that she was the president of…
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