NOT RECOMMENDED FOR PUBLICATION File Name: 21a0310n.06 Nos. 19-3537/20-3252 UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE SIXTH CIRCUIT FILED BELKIS WALESKA COREA ESCOTO; HECTOR ) Jul 02, 2021 ) ADONYS MUNOZ COREA, DEBORAH S. HUNT, Clerk ) ) Petitioners, ) ON PETITION FOR REVIEW ) FROM THE UNITED STATES v. ) BOARD OF IMMIGRATION ) APPEALS MERRICK B. GARLAND, Attorney General, ) ) Respondent. ) Before: STRANCH, BUSH, and LARSEN, Circuit Judges. LARSEN, Circuit Judge. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) initiated removal proceedings against Belkis Waleska Corea Escoto and her son.1 Corea then applied for asylum on behalf of herself and her son, and withholding of removal and protection under the Convention Against Torture (CAT) for herself. The immigration judge (IJ) and the Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA) denied relief and ordered Corea and her son removed to Honduras. Corea also sought administrative closure of her proceedings, or at least a continuance of them, until her pending application for a U visa was resolved. The IJ and BIA denied her requests. Corea timely petitioned for review (Docket No. 19-3537). While her petition was pending in this court, Corea sought reconsideration of the BIA’s decision. The BIA denied her motion for reconsideration, and 1 Petitioner refers to herself as “Corea” in her briefing, so we do the same. While Corea’s youngest son is also a party to this proceeding, we do not address his case separately because his case is derivative of Corea’s. Nos. 19-3537/20-3252, Corea Escoto v. Garland she petitioned for review (Docket No. 20-3252). We consolidated the petitions. For the reasons stated, we GRANT in part and DENY in part Corea’s petition in Docket No. 19-3537 and DISMISS in part and DENY in part Corea’s petition in Docket No. 20-3252. We REMAND to the BIA for further proceedings. I. Corea is a native and citizen of Honduras. She has three minor children who are also Honduran natives and citizens. We refer to the children as L., A., and H. Corea also has a son born in the United States after the conclusion of her removal proceedings before the IJ; this son is a United States citizen. In early 2016, Corea fled Honduras with her youngest Honduran-born son, H., and entered the United States without authorization. DHS later initiated removal proceedings against Corea and H., filing Notices to Appear that alleged that Corea and H. were removable under 8 U.S.C. § 1182(a)(7)(A)(i)(I) as aliens who, “at the time of application for admission, [were] not in possession of a valid unexpired immigrant visa, reentry permit, border crossing card, or other valid entry document required by the [Immigration and Nationality] Act.” Before the IJ, Corea conceded removability but sought asylum, withholding of removal, and protection under the CAT. Her application alleged that, while in Honduras, she had been threatened and extorted by a man named El Pollo, who approached her while she was selling candy by her house; claiming that he was “the one who collects the rent,” El Pollo demanded …
Original document
Source: All recent Immigration Decisions In All the U.S. Courts of Appeals