Legal Opinion
Reina Izabel Garcia-Martinez v. John Ashcroft, Attorney General
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided June 14, 2004No. 02-74068PublishedCited by 133 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
RAWLINSON, Circuit Judge:
Reina Garcia-Martinez (Garcia) has survived atrocities that most of us experience only in our worst nightmares. Her rural village in Guatemala was pillaged by both the guerillas and the military. Garcia’s eventual rape was inextricably tied to the village’s affiliation, in the minds of the Guatemalan military, with the guerillas. Because “[pjersecution is stamped on every page of this record[,]” Lopez-Galarza v. INS, 99 F.3d 954, 959 (9th Cir.1996) (citation omitted),' and the IJ’s determination that Garcia failed to demonstrate past persecution is not supported by…
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