Decision date: 2018-01-18

Holding that the agency did not adequately explain its factual determinations in denying asylum to an LGBTQ Mexican asylum-seeker because it failed to (1) consider whether there is a pattern or practice of harm against LGBTQ individuals in Mexico rising to the level of persecution and (2) give reasons for discounting record evidence that contradicted its conclusion that the asylum-seeker did not have an objectively reasonable fear of return to Mexico.

Publication Status: Unpublished

Case judge: Floyd, Gregory, Harris

Decision: Molina Mendoza v. Sessions, 712 F. App'x 240 (4th Cir. 2018) (No. 17-1006)