Decision date: 2024-01-30

Holding that Lopez-Benitez failed to show nexus between his family-based particular social group and the extortion he suffered at the hands of the MS-13 gang because he did not submit evidence that he was targeted on account of his family beyond a single sentence in his own testimony. Also holding that Lopez-Benitez failed to exhaust administrative remedies for his CAT claim by only raising it in his brief before the Board of Immigration Appeals in the introduction and statement of facts. 

Publication Status: Published

Case judge: Agee, Richardson, Wilkinson

Decision: Lopez-Benitez v. Garland, No. 22-1808, 2024 WL 332223 (4th Cir. Jan. 30, 2024)