19-217 Cordova-Garcia v. Garland BIA Ruehle, IJ A202 074 464/465/466, 206 198 152 UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE SECOND CIRCUIT SUMMARY ORDER RULINGS BY SUMMARY ORDER DO NOT HAVE PRECEDENTIAL EFFECT. CITATION TO A SUMMARY ORDER FILED ON OR AFTER JANUARY 1, 2007, IS PERMITTED AND IS GOVERNED BY FEDERAL RULE OF APPELLATE PROCEDURE 32.1 AND THIS COURT=S LOCAL RULE 32.1.1. WHEN CITING A SUMMARY ORDER IN A DOCUMENT FILED WITH THIS COURT, A PARTY MUST CITE EITHER THE FEDERAL APPENDIX OR AN ELECTRONIC DATABASE (WITH THE NOTATION “SUMMARY ORDER”). A PARTY CITING TO A SUMMARY ORDER MUST SERVE A COPY OF IT ON ANY PARTY NOT REPRESENTED BY COUNSEL. 1 At a stated term of the United States Court of Appeals 2 for the Second Circuit, held at the Thurgood Marshall 3 United States Courthouse, 40 Foley Square, in the City of 4 New York, on the 19th day of May, two thousand twenty-one. 5 6 PRESENT: 7 JOSÉ A. CABRANES, 8 WILLIAM J. NARDINI, 9 STEVEN J. MENASHI, 10 Circuit Judges. 11 _____________________________________ 12 13 VEDA RAQUEL CORDOVA-GARCIA, 14 VIVIAN ARACELY MILIAN-CORDOVA, 15 KEILIN RAQUEL CORDOVA, 16 EDIN ORLANDO GONZALEZ-GARCIA, 17 Petitioners, 18 19 v. 19-217 20 NAC 21 MERRICK B. GARLAND, UNITED 22 STATES ATTORNEY GENERAL, 23 Respondent. 24 _____________________________________ 25 1 FOR PETITIONERS: Jose Perez, Esq., Law Offices of 2 Jose Perez, P.C., Syracuse, NY. 3 4 FOR RESPONDENT: Joseph H. Hunt, Assistant Attorney 5 General; M. Jocelyn Lopez Wright, 6 Senior Litigation Counsel; Jacob 7 A. Bashyrov, Trial Attorney, 8 Office of Immigration Litigation, 9 United States Department of 10 Justice, Washington, DC. 11 UPON DUE CONSIDERATION of this petition for review of a 12 Board of Immigration Appeals (“BIA”) decision, it is hereby 13 ORDERED, ADJUDGED, AND DECREED that the petition for review 14 is DENIED. 15 Petitioners Veda Raquel Cordova-Garcia (“Cordova- 16 Garcia”), Vivian Aracely Milian-Cordova, Keilin Raquel 17 Cordova, and Edin Orlando Gonzalez-Garcia, natives and 18 citizens of Guatemala, seek review of a December 21, 2018, 19 decision of the BIA affirming an October 20, 2017, decision 20 of an Immigration Judge (“IJ”) denying Cordova-Garcia’s 21 application for asylum, withholding of removal, and 22 protection under the Convention Against Torture (“CAT”). In 23 re Veda Raquel Cordova-Garcia, et al., No. A 202 074 24 464/465/466, 206 198 152 (B.I.A. Dec. 21, 2018), aff’g No. A 25 202 074 464/465/466, 206 198 152 (Immig. Ct. Buffalo Oct. 20, 2 1 2017). We assume the parties’ familiarity with the 2 underlying facts and procedural history. 3 We have reviewed both the BIA’s and IJ’s decisions for 4 the “sake of completeness.” Wangchuck v. Dep’t of Homeland 5 Sec., 448 F.3d 524, 528 (2d Cir. 2006). The applicable 6 standards of review are well established. See Yanqin Weng 7 v. Holder, 562 F.3d 510, 513 (2d Cir. 2009) (reviewing factual 8 findings for substantial evidence and questions of law and 9 application of law to facts de novo). “[T]he administrative 10 findings of …
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