Case: 19-12190 Date Filed: 03/16/2020 Page: 1 of 10 [DO NOT PUBLISH] IN THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE ELEVENTH CIRCUIT ________________________ No. 19-12190 Non-Argument Calendar ________________________ Agency No. A209-007-422 EULALIA ANDRES-DIEGO, et al., Petitioners, versus U.S. ATTORNEY GENERAL, Respondent. ________________________ Petition for Review of a Decision of the Board of Immigration Appeals ________________________ (March 16, 2020) Before WILLIAM PRYOR, MARTIN, and HULL, Circuit Judges. PER CURIAM: Eulalia Andres-Diego and her two minor children petition for review of the Board of Immigration Appeals’ (“BIA”) final order affirming the Immigration Judge’s (“IJ”) denial of their application for asylum, withholding of removal, and Case: 19-12190 Date Filed: 03/16/2020 Page: 2 of 10 relief under the United Nations Convention Against Torture. After careful review, we deny their petition. I. Andres-Diego is a 25-year-old native and citizen of Guatemala. She married Juan De Diego Jacinto in April 2013. The couple welcomed two daughters, A. and M.,1 in 2013 and 2015. The family lived in San Miguel Acatán, Guatemala, from the time they married until April 2016. One night in April 2016, three masked men dressed in black and carrying guns came to Andres-Diego’s home. The men “pointed guns and demanded [Andres-Diego] give them 10,000 quetzales” or they would kidnap her children and likely kill Andres-Diego. Andres-Diego did not have this money, but the men told her they would come back in a week to collect the sum. Andres-Diego did not know who the men were. She thought the men “belong[ed] to a group” and that “somebody sent them.” She believed the men had targeted her because her father- in-law, who lived in the United States, sent her family money once or twice a month. Andres-Diego would pick up these remittances at a service called Intermex. Andres-Diego testified the thieves “probably . . . [thought] that I have money” because of her trips to Intermex. 1 A. and M. are also Guatemala natives and citizens. 2 Case: 19-12190 Date Filed: 03/16/2020 Page: 3 of 10 Scared by the three men’s threats, Andres-Diego quickly fled Guatemala with her two young daughters. She did not report the threats to the Guatemalan police because she had heard from others that “they don’t help even if you report.” Andres-Diego did not believe she could relocate within Guatemala because she is of Mayan ethnicity; her native language, Kanjobal, is not spoken anywhere else in the country; and she has a “very limited working knowledge of Spanish.” She also feared that “if we return, we will be killed because we did not pay the 10,000 quetzales.” Andres-Diego and her daughters entered the United States on May 10, 2016. The following day, the Department of Homeland Security served them with Notices to Appear, charging them with being removable under Section 212(a)(6)(A)(i) of the Immigration and Nationality Act, 8 U.S.C. § 1182(a)(6)(A)(i), as noncitizens present in the United States without being admitted or paroled. Andres-Diego and her children, through counsel, admitted these facts and conceded removability. In 2017, Andres-Diego applied for ...
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