Toledo-Vasquez v. Garland, No. 20-1849 (4th Cir. 2022)
Annotate this CaseThe Fourth Circuit denied a petition for review challenging the BIA's denial of petitioner's application for asylum based on its finding that she had not shown she was persecuted on account of her membership in her alleged particular social group, "family members of Guisela Toledo-Vasquez." The court concluded that, despite the tragic circumstances that caused petitioner to flee Mexico, substantial evidence supports the Board's conclusion that she was not persecuted on account of her family relationship with Guisela. Rather, petitioner's family membership to Guisela is merely an incidental, tangential, superficial and subordinate reason for her persecution. In this case, the record suggests that had petitioner been someone else other than Guisela's sister, she would have been targeted just the same.
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