Corpeno-Romero

FOR PUBLICATION

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS

FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT

CANDELARIA DE LOS ANGELES No. 23-576

CORPENO-ROMERO; JAVI

Agency Nos.

ALEXANDER CORNEJO-

A215-944-680

CORPENO,

A215-944-681

Petitioners,

OPINION

v.

MERRICK B. GARLAND, Attorney General,

Respondent.

On Petition for Review of an Order of the Board of Immigration Appeals

Argued and Submitted May 17, 2024 San Francisco, California

Filed October 22, 2024

Before: Sidney R. Thomas, Consuelo M. Callahan, and Gabriel P. Sanchez, Circuit Judges.

Opinion by Judge Sanchez; Partial Dissent and Partial Concurrence by Judge Callahan CORPENO-ROMERO V. GARLAND

SUMMARY*

Immigration

Granting in part and denying in part a petition for review of a decision of the Board of Immigration Appeals, and remanding, the panel held that petitioners Candelaria De Los Angeles Corpeno-Romero and her child Javi Alexander Cornejo-Corpeno both established that they suffered harm rising to the level of persecution and that such harm was on account of a protected ground. The panel held that the record compelled the conclusion that members of the M-18 gang who murdered Javi’s father Carlos were…