United States Court of Appeals For the Eighth Circuit ___________________________ No. 18-2812 ___________________________ Prudencia Jimenez Galloso lllllllllllllllllllllPetitioner v. William P. Barr, Attorney General of the United States lllllllllllllllllllllRespondent ------------------------------ Immigration Law Professors lllllllllllllllllllllAmicus on Behalf of Petitioner ____________ Petition for Review of an Order of the Board of Immigration Appeals ____________ Submitted: November 14, 2019 Filed: April 7, 2020 ____________ Before GRUENDER, KELLY, and ERICKSON, Circuit Judges. ____________ KELLY, Circuit Judge. Prudencia Jimenez Galloso petitions for review of a decision of the Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA) denying her applications for asylum and withholding of removal. Because we conclude she failed to meet her burden of showing a well-founded fear of future persecution, we deny the petition for review. I. Galloso is a citizen of Mexico. In February 2001, she entered the United States without inspection. After she was placed in removal proceedings in 2017, she sought asylum, withholding of removal, and relief under the Convention Against Torture (CAT). Galloso claimed that if she returned to Mexico, she would face future persecution based on her membership in four particular social groups: (1) Mexican females; (2) close family members; (3) “Mexican married women in domestic relationships they are unable to leave”; and (4) “married Mexican women who are viewed as property by virtue of their position within a domestic relationship.” At the hearing before the Immigration Judge (IJ), Galloso testified that she suffered repeated physical and sexual abuse while in Mexico and the United States. After dropping out of school at age fifteen, she met and married Miguel Orlando Sosa in Mexico. Sosa abused Galloso until he left for the United States, but Galloso never reported the abuse to the Mexican police. Sometime after entering the United States, Galloso divorced Sosa. She then met Juan Alvarez Casanova, married him, and had a son with him. Casanova began physically and sexually abusing Galloso after they married. Galloso never called the police about Casanova’s abuse, except for one time when Casanova locked her and their son outside of the house in the winter. In 2012, Casanova was removed to Mexico for charges unrelated to Galloso. Galloso testified that she fears Casanova will harm her if she returned to Mexico. Since his removal to Mexico, Casanova has repeatedly called Galloso and threatened to make her “disappear” if she ever came back. Casanova lives in -2- Campeche, Mexico, which is five hours away from Merida, the town Galloso would live in if she returned to Mexico. Casanova knows Galloso’s family lives in Merida but he has not visited the town since 2012. Despite Casanova’s threats, Galloso maintained she would not call the Mexican police if she returned because she believes the police are corrupt and would not help her. For support, she relied on country condition reports that indicated police corruption is a significant problem in Mexico. The reports also noted “70 percent of female homicide victims in Mexico were killed by their intimate partners” and “the majority of these women had sought help from ...
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