Case: 17-13849 Date Filed: 01/14/2020 Page: 1 of 36 [DO NOT PUBLISH] IN THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE ELEVENTH CIRCUIT ________________________ No. 17-13849 ________________________ Agency No. A208-919-884 ABDIRAHMAN SALAD WARSAME, Petitioner, versus U.S. ATTORNEY GENERAL, Respondent. ________________________ Petition for Review of a Decision of the Board of Immigration Appeals ________________________ (January 14, 2020) Before JORDAN, GRANT, and SILER,∗ Circuit Judges. JORDAN, Circuit Judge: Abdirahman Salad Warsame seeks review of a final order by the Board of ∗The Honorable Eugene E. Siler, Jr., United States Circuit Judge for the Sixth Circuit, sitting by designation. Case: 17-13849 Date Filed: 01/14/2020 Page: 2 of 36 Immigration Appeals affirming the denial of his application for asylum and withholding of removal. Mr. Warsame asserts that the immigration judge and the BIA erred by (1) holding that he had not suffered past persecution at the hands of the terrorist organization al-Shabaab; (2) finding that he had not shown that political opinion was a central reason for his persecution; (3) failing to consider whether he was persecuted as a result of his membership in a particular social group—his family; (4) concluding that he could reasonably be expected to relocate within Somalia; and (5) denying him due process during the hearing before the IJ. Because we conclude that the BIA did not consider some of Mr. Warsame’s claims, we vacate and remand for further proceedings, while dismissing the unexhausted due process claims. I A Mr. Warsame is a native of Somalia. On January 7, 2016, he arrived in the United States and was detained. On January 29, 2016, during a credible fear interview with an asylum officer, Mr. Warsame explained that al-Shabaab killed his daughter and sister in a bombing in Somalia that was directed at his father for his work as a police chief for the Somali government. Following the bombing, al- Shabaab called Mr. Warsame and threatened to kill him, in part, because of his father. 2 Case: 17-13849 Date Filed: 01/14/2020 Page: 3 of 36 Mr. Warsame then explained that he left Somalia to study in Turkey and Malaysia and that, upon his return, al-Shabaab renewed their death threats because of his work as a teacher. [When the asylum officer asked whether he thought that al-Shabaab believed he was opposed to them, he replied: “I believe so [because] every time I did a seminar that is when they would contact me, so I would assume so.” He stated that al-Shabaab killed other teachers at his college for using western forms of education. He also explained that al-Shabaab killed his brother-in-law because he was “helping [Mr. Warsame’s] father.” When the asylum officer asked if he had ever been threatened or harmed on account of his political opinion or opposition to political activity, Mr. Warsame answered that he “didn’t have any particular opinions or political beliefs that [he] was attacked for personally, but [he] was attacked for [his] father’s position.” When the asylum officer inquired as to what Mr. Warsame believed was the “main ...
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