Immigration — asylum

By: WISCONSIN LAW JOURNAL STAFF//March 20, 2014//

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U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit

Civil

Immigration — asylum

Where a former Mexican police officer has been targeted for death by drug cartels, his petition for asylum was improperly denied.

“Yet although the record contains evidence that drug-dealing organizations in Mexico target former police officers in general, and R.R.D. in particular, the Board did not mention it. That won’t do. The Board must analyze rather than ignore material evidence. Escobar, 657 F.3d at 544. Perhaps the Board thinks that the risk R.R.D. faces as a former officer is too slight to satisfy the standard for asylum, but it did not say this. Chenery requires us to return this matter to the Board.”

Petition Granted.

13-2141 R.R.D. v. Holder

Petition for Review of an Order of the Board of Immigration Appeals, Easterbrook, J.

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