Legal Opinion
Raul Plaza-Ramirez v. Jefferson B. Sessions III
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided November 7, 2018No. 14-2828PublishedCited by 22 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Hamilton, Circuit Judge.
Raul Plaza-Ramirez is a citizen of Mexico. He petitions for judicial review of a Board of Immigration Appeals order denying his application for withholding of removal based on a threat of persecution if he were to return to Mexico. The immigration judge denied relief, finding no nexus between Plaza-Ramirez's membership in a "particular social group" and the persecution he described. The Board affirmed. We deny the petition because substantial evidence supports the judge's and the Board's decisions.
I. Factual and Procedural Background
In the summer of 2001, Raul…
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