United States First Circuit

Guatemalan national's petition for review of an order denying an application for withholding of removal is denied where substantial evidence supported a finding that petitioner failed to establish a sufficient nexus between the harm alleged (past and future) and his ethnicity or other statutorily protected ground.

Appellate Information

• Decided 08/18/2009
• Published 08/18/2009

Judges

• SELYA, Circuit Judge., Before LIPEZ, SELYA and HOWARD, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States First Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Randy Olen on brief for petitioner.


• For Appellees:
  
• Tony West, Assistant Attorney General, Civil Division, Anthony W. Norwood, Senior Litigation Counsel, and Richard Zanfardino, Trial Attorney, Office of Immigration Litigation, on brief for respondent.