Category Archives: withholding of removal

Matter of G-C-I-: The BIA Just Rewrote the Rules for Credibility and Corroboration

Posted on August 19, 2025 by Mike Baker

The Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA) issued a landmark decision today that fundamentally reshapes how Immigration Judges can evaluate asylum seekers and other applicants for protection from removal. In Matter of G-C-I-, 29 I&N Dec. 176 (BIA 2025), decided on … Continue reading →

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CA7 dismissed application for withholding of removal for lack of jurisdiction, general fear of crime and extortion activity arising out of gang’s actions not enough

Posted on July 6, 2017 by Mike Baker

CA7 lacked jurisdiction to review alien’s appeal of Board Order denying his application for withholding of removal. Lopez admitted that he was removable based on his prior conviction on drug offense, and he did nor establish valid claim for withholding … Continue reading →

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CA7 lacked jurisdiction and cannot second-guess Bd.’s decision that conviction qualified as “particularly serious”

Posted on July 5, 2017 by Mike Baker

CA7 lacked jurisdiction to consider alien’s appeal of Bd.’s order finding that she was ineligible for relief on her application for withholding of removal due to her Wisconsin conviction on charge of first-degree reckless injury that arose out of incident … Continue reading →

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CA7 affirms denial of withholding of removal to Mexico and CAT relief; BIA fact-finding as to state-court conviction was harmless

Posted on April 20, 2017 by Mike Baker

Delgado-Arteaga v. Sessions, No. 16-1816 (7th Cir. 2017) Record contained sufficient evidence to support IJ’s order denying alien’s application for withholding of removal to Mexico, where said denial was based, in part, on finding that alien’s prior Illinois drug trafficking … Continue reading →

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CA7 upholds IJ’s denial of asylum and withholding of removal relief for 58‐year‐old citizen of El Salvador

Posted on February 22, 2017 by Mike Baker

Record contained sufficient evidence to support IJ’s denial of alien’s applications for asylum and withholding of removal relief, even though alien claimed that he had fear of future persecution if forced to return to El Salvador because certain gangs would … Continue reading →

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