United States Eleventh Circuit

In case where petitioner was threatened by members of FARC's urban militia in Colombia, petition for review challenging denial of asylum and withholding of removal is granted in part where: 1) petitioner claims that she testified, and showed through the country reports, that authorities in Colombia would have been unable or unwilling to protect her from FARC; and 2) the BIA should address the issue of futility on remand.

Appellate Information

• Decided 10/25/2007
• Published 10/25/2007

Judges

• CARNES, Circuit Judge:, Before CARNES and WILSON, Circuit Judges, and STAGG, District Judge.

Court

• United States Eleventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Roberto Matus, Roberto Matus, P.A., Miami, FL, for Lopez.


• For Appellees:
  
• Anthony Cardozo Payne, David V. Bernal, Jamie M. Dowd, U.S. Dept. of Justice, OIL, Civ. Div., Washington, DC, Heather Steiner Tewksbury, San Francisco, CA, for Respondent.