NOT RECOMMENDED FOR FULL-TEXT PUBLICATION File Name: 19a0338n.06 No. 18-3891 UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE SIXTH CIRCUIT FILED Jul 05, 2019 SARA MARIA AGUILAR-GONZALEZ, ) DEBORAH S. HUNT, Clerk ) Petitioner, ) ) ON PETITION FOR REVIEW v. ) FROM THE UNITED STATES ) BOARD OF IMMIGRATION WILLIAM P. BARR, Attorney General, ) APPEALS ) Respondent. ) ) ) BEFORE: GUY, THAPAR, and NALBANDIAN, Circuit Judges. PER CURIAM. Sara Maria Aguilar-Gonzalez, a native and citizen of Guatemala, petitions this court for review of an order of the Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA) dismissing her appeal from the denial of her application for asylum, withholding of removal, and protection under the Convention Against Torture (CAT). As set forth below, we DENY the petition. Aguilar-Gonzalez and her minor daughter entered the United States at Roma, Texas, on March 9, 2016. Upon their apprehension, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) served Aguilar-Gonzalez with a notice to appear in removal proceedings, charging her with removability as an immigrant who, at the time of application for admission, was not in possession of a valid entry document.1 See 8 U.S.C. § 1182(a)(7)(A)(i)(I). 1 The DHS also served Aguilar-Gonzalez’s daughter with a notice to appear in removal proceedings. Aguilar-Gonzalez listed her daughter as a derivative beneficiary on her asylum application but did not name her daughter as a petitioner in this case. See Fed. R. App. P. 15(a)(2)(A). No. 18-3891, Aguilar-Gonzalez v. Barr In a hearing before an immigration judge (IJ), Aguilar-Gonzalez admitted the factual allegations set forth in the notice to appear and conceded removability as charged. Aguilar- Gonzalez filed an application for asylum and withholding of removal based on her race, political opinion, and membership in a particular social group and for protection under the CAT. Aguilar- Gonzalez claimed membership in two particular social groups: (1) indigenous Guatemalan women living in the Guatemalan Western Highlands and (2) indigenous Guatemalan women who cannot leave a relationship. At the hearing on her application, Aguilar-Gonzalez testified that she was sexually assaulted by two men when she was a teenager and that she was verbally and physically abused by her daughter’s father. Around the age of fourteen, Aguilar-Gonzalez went to work on a coffee plantation in Mexico where she was raped on multiple occasions by a man from her village named Edgar. When Aguilar-Gonzalez worked at a different coffee plantation in Guatemala around the age of fifteen, a supervisor named Waldemar sexually assaulted her and attempted to assault her on two other occasions. Aguilar-Gonzalez never told anyone about these sexual assaults. Aguilar-Gonzalez also testified about the domestic abuse inflicted by her daughter’s father, Oscar. Aguilar-Gonzalez began living with Oscar after their daughter was born in 2008. According to Aguilar-Gonzalez, “everything went fine” for the first year, but then Oscar began to mistreat her, insulting and beating her. After Aguilar-Gonzalez reported his abuse to a judge, Oscar was summoned to court, and the judge issued a restraining order or certificate, which Oscar refused to sign. Aguilar-Gonzalez separated from ...
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