Legal Opinion
Rita Carrion Garcia v. Eric Holder, Jr.
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided April 16, 2014No. 12-73781PublishedCited by 133 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
GOULD, Circuit Judge:
Petitioner Rita Maria Carrion Garcia, a native of the Dominican Republic, petitions for review of the Board of Immigration Appeals’ (“BIA”) decision affirming the denial of her application for withholding of removal and protection under the Convention Against Torture (“CAT”). We have jurisdiction under 8 U.S.C. § 1252(a)(1), and we deny the petition for review.
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Carrion Garcia gives the following account of her personal history. She was born in Santo Domingo in the Dominican Republic, where she lived with her parents until age twenty-two, when she moved to live…
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