Legal Opinion
Sosa-Perez v. Sessions
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided February 28, 2018No. 17-1304PPublishedCited by 9 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BARRON, Circuit Judge.
Wendy Sosa-Perez (Sosa), a Honduran national, petitions for review of the Board of Immigration Appeals' (BIA) dismissal of her appeal from the denial of her application for asylum and withholding of removal for herself and, derivatively, her two minor children. She does so on the basis of the violent attack that she claimed to have suffered in that country in 2013 and the numerous violent attacks that she claimed other members of her family suffered over the course of more than three decades. Given the deference that we owe the BIA's factual findings, we deny the…
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