United States First Circuit

In a petition for review of an order of the BIA reversing an administrative grant of asylum and denying petitioner, a native and citizen of Guatemala, relief under the NACARA, petition is denied where: 1) a "family returning to Guatemala after a lengthy residence in the United States" is not a social group protected under the asylum statute; and 2) petitioner had been apprehended "at the time of entry" and therefore was not entitled to NACARA relief.

Appellate Information

• Decided 11/10/2011
• Published 11/10/2011

Judges

• BOUDIN

Court

• United States First Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Martin D. Harris, Tony West