USCA11 Case: 20-12089 Date Filed: 03/23/2021 Page: 1 of 12 [DO NOT PUBLISH] IN THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE ELEVENTH CIRCUIT ________________________ No. 20-12089 Non-Argument Calendar ________________________ Agency No. A206-630-974 LETICIA HERNANDEZ-TROCHEZ, EDIMILSON JOSE LINARES-HERNANDEZ, Petitioners, versus U.S. ATTORNEY GENERAL, Respondent. ________________________ Petition for Review of a Decision of the Board of Immigration Appeals ________________________ (March 23, 2021) Before WILSON, ROSENBAUM, and LAGOA, Circuit Judges. PER CURIAM: Leticia Hernandez-Trochez and her son, Edimilson Jose Linares-Hernandez, petition for review of the Board of Immigration Appeals’s (“BIA”) order affirming USCA11 Case: 20-12089 Date Filed: 03/23/2021 Page: 2 of 12 the immigration judge’s order of removal and denial of their applications for asylum and withholding of removal. For the reasons discussed below, we lack jurisdiction and dismiss the petition. I. FACTUAL AND PROCEDURAL HISTORY Hernandez-Trochez and her son were born in and are citizens of Honduras. On March 24, 2014, Hernandez-Trochez and her son entered the United States through Texas without legal authorization. The Department of Homeland Security served them with notices to appear, charging them as subject to removal because they were present in the United States without being admitted or paroled by an immigration officer. On August 11, 2014, at a removal hearing, Hernandez- Trochez’s attorney conceded removability and expressed an intent to apply for asylum. On October 10, 2014, Hernandez-Trochez applied for asylum and withholding of removal under both the Immigration and Nationality Act (“INA”) and the Convention Against Torture (“CAT”). The application said that she was a member of a particular social group and she feared returning to Honduras because her son’s father, Jose Salomon Linares, subjected her to physical, mental, and sexual abuse.1 1 Under the INA, an alien is eligible for asylum if the alien was persecuted on account of membership in a particular social group. 8 U.S.C. § 1158(b)(1)(A); id. § 1101(a)(42). 2 USCA11 Case: 20-12089 Date Filed: 03/23/2021 Page: 3 of 12 To support her claim, Hernandez-Trochez submitted two affidavits that were identical except for the name of the affiant. She also included a third statement from a Honduran municipal government employee that concluded that Linares subjected Hernandez-Trochez to domestic violence. Additionally, she submitted reports from the United States Department of State, Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada, and a think tank called the Americas Program, all of which detailed the extent of the violence against women in Honduras. On February 4, 2015, an immigration judge held a merits hearing in this case. At the hearing, Hernandez-Trochez testified that Hernandez-Trochez and Linares were neighbors who met shortly after her family moved away. The two became friends and Linares helped her financially. Eventually, he began to abuse her, including sexually. Hernandez-Trochez gave birth to Linares’s son, but the abuse continued. Linares threatened to take away her son if she left. She went to the police three times, but the police refused to do anything about the situation. Eventually, she left their home and went to stay with her sister, who lived about four …
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