Decision date: 2020-01-27

Holding that IJ and BIA did not violate Petitioner's due process rights in denying his "merchant in the formal Honduran economy"-based asylum claim because, while the IJ mischaracterized the particular social group at issue, the BIA cured the deficiency by properly analyzing Petitioner's proposed group and rejecting it based on lack of immutability in accordance with Matter of Acosta.

Publication Status: Published

Case judge: Agee, Quattlebaum, Thacker

Decision: Canales-Rivera v. Barr, 948 F.3d 649 (4th Cir. 2020)