Rodriguez de Palucho v. Garland
Status: Review current treatment
Summary
A Sixth Circuit decision examining whether evidence of gang violence and government conduct established the required connection to state action through governmental inability or unwillingness to protect; affirms the BIA's underlying decisions.
Holding
In an asylum claim based on violence by private actors, the applicant must establish that the government is unable or unwilling to control the persecutors; the court rejected the claim on the record before it.
Topics: asylum, private-actor persecution, government protection, gang violence
Related terms: asylum, persecution, particular social group
Notes
Circuit-specific. The case does not establish that a government must have advance knowledge of every threat before an asylum claim can succeed.