By: Derek Hawkins//August 19, 2019//
7th Circuit Court of Appeals
Case Name: Juana Hernandez-Garcia, et al. v. William P. Barr
Case No.: 18-3297
Officials: WOOD, Chief Judge, and EASTERBROOK and HAMILTON, Circuit Judges.
Focus: Immigration – Removal Order
Juana Hernandez-Garcia is a citizen of Guatemala. She and two of her children, Brian and Yeniser Morales-Hernandez, entered the United States without proper documentation on August 29, 2015. They immediately received Notices to Appear for removal proceedings, but those Notices did not specify a date and time for their hearing. Later, when they nonetheless appeared before an immigration judge, they conceded removability but filed requests for asylum, withholding of removal, and protection under the Convention against Torture. As we detail below, first the immigration judge and then the Board of Immigration Appeals rejected those requests and ordered removal. Hernandez-Garcia, on behalf of both her children and herself, has petitioned this court for review. We conclude that the Board’s decision must be upheld, and so we deny their petitions for review.
Petition denied