18-3736 Mendoza-Mira v. Garland 1 UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS 2 FOR THE SECOND CIRCUIT 3 SUMMARY ORDER 4 RULINGS BY SUMMARY ORDER DO NOT HAVE PRECEDENTIAL EFFECT. 5 CITATION TO A SUMMARY ORDER FILED ON OR AFTER JANUARY 1, 2007, IS 6 PERMITTED AND IS GOVERNED BY FEDERAL RULE OF APPELLATE 7 PROCEDURE 32.1 AND THIS COURT'S LOCAL RULE 32.1.1. WHEN CITING A 8 SUMMARY ORDER IN A DOCUMENT FILED WITH THIS COURT, A PARTY 9 MUST CITE EITHER THE FEDERAL APPENDIX OR AN ELECTRONIC DATABASE 10 (WITH THE NOTATION "SUMMARY ORDER"). A PARTY CITING A SUMMARY 11 ORDER MUST SERVE A COPY OF IT ON ANY PARTY NOT REPRESENTED BY 12 COUNSEL. 13 At a stated Term of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, held 14 at the Thurgood Marshall United States Courthouse, 40 Foley Square, in the City of New 15 York on the 19th day of July, two thousand twenty-one. 16 Present: AMALYA L. KEARSE, 17 JOSÉ A. CABRANES, 18 ROSEMARY S. POOLER, 19 Circuit Judges. 20 ____________________________________________________ 21 SONIA MENDOZA-MIRA, 22 Petitioner, 23 - v. - No. 18-3736 1 MERRICK B. GARLAND, United States Attorney General*, 2 Respondent. 3 ____________________________________________________ 4 For Petitioner: H. RAYMOND FASANO, New York, NY (Youman, Madeo & 5 Fasano, New York, NY, on the brief), for Petitioner. 6 For Respondent: NELLE M. SEYMOUR, Trial Att'y, Off. of Immig. Litig., U.S. 7 Dep't of Justice, Washington, DC (Joseph H. Hunt, Ass't Att'y 8 Gen., Civ. Div., Claire L. Workman, Senior Litig. Counsel, Off. 9 of Immig. Litig., U.S. Dep't of Justice, Washington, DC, on the 10 brief), for Respondent. 11 Petition for review of a November 21, 2018 order of the Board of Immigration 12 Appeals. 13 This cause came on to be heard on the record from the Board of Immigration 14 Appeals and was argued by counsel. 15 ON CONSIDERATION WHEREOF, it is now hereby ordered, adjudged, and 16 decreed that the petition for review is denied. 17 Petitioner Sonia Mendoza-Mira, a native and citizen of El Salvador, seeks review 18 of a decision of the Board of Immigration Appeals ("BIA" or "Board"), see In re Sonia 19 Mendoza-Mira, No. A 206 367 044 (B.I.A. Nov. 21, 2018) ("BIA Decision"), affirming the 20 decision of the Immigration Judge ("IJ"), No. A 206 367 044 (Immig. Ct. N.Y. City July 27, 21 2017), denying her petition for asylum, withholding of removal, and protection under the * Pursuant to Federal Rule of Appellate Procedure 43(c)(2), Attorney General Merrick B. Garland is automatically substituted for former Attorney General William P. Barr as Respondent in this case. -2- 1 Convention Against Torture. Mendoza-Mira sought such relief on the ground that she 2 had suffered past persecution on account of her political opinion, in the form of threats 3 and physical abuse from members of Partido Alianza Republicana Nacionalista 4 ("ARENA"), a rival of Partido De La Esperanza, the political party of which she was a 5 member and an …
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