United States Ninth Circuit

In a petition for review of a Board of Immigration Appeals' (BIA) denial of petitioner's withholding of removal claim, the petition is granted where the BIA erred in applying the REAL ID Act's 'one central reason' nexus standard, rather than the 'a reason' standard, to an application for withholding of removal, and improperly placed the burden on petitioner to prove that he could not safely relocate within Mexico for purposes of Convention Against Torture protection relief.

Appellate Information

• Published 2017/01/18

Judges

• KLEINFELD

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel