Legal Opinion
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Board of Immigration Appeals
Decided July 1, 2021No. ID 4006Published
1Opinion of the Court
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28 I&N Dec. 199
(A.G. 2021) Interim Decision #4006 Matter of A-B-, Respondent Decided by Acting Attorney General January 14, 2021 U.S. Department of Justice Office of the Attorney General (1) Matter of A-B-,
27 I&N Dec. 316
(A.G. 2018), did not alter the existing standard for determining whether a government is “unwilling or unable” to prevent persecution by non-governmental actors. The “complete helplessness” language used in Matter of A-B- is consistent with the longstanding “unable or unwilling” standard, as the two are interchangeable formulations. (2) The concept of “persecution”…
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