Reyes-Mendez v. Lynch

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Ramiro Reyes-Mendez fears that if he returns to his small hometown in the Mexican state of Veracruz, the Zetas- — a powerful drug cartel in Mexico — will extort money from him on threat of death, just as they have done for years to his uncles. The Board of Immigration Appeals denied Reyes-Mendez’s application for withholding of removal, concluding that he could not show a nexus between potential future persecution and his membership in a protected social group and, alternatively, that he had not shown that he could not reasonably relocate to a part of Mexico where he would not face…