Uribe Andrade v. Garland

FOR PUBLICATION

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS

FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT

MIGUEL ANGEL URIBE No. 21-1244

ANDRADE,

Agency No.

A200-739-003

Petitioner,

v. OPINION

MERRICK B. GARLAND, Attorney General,

Respondent.

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

Argued and Submitted October 20, 2023 Phoenix, Arizona

Filed March 1, 2024

Before: Sandra S. Ikuta, Bridget S. Bade, and Daniel A. Bress, Circuit Judges.

Opinion by Judge Bress SUMMARY*

Immigration

The panel denied Miguel Angel Uribe Andrade’s petition for review of the Board of Immigration Appeals’ dismissal of an appeal of the denial of asylum and related relief, concluding that the Board did not commit legal error in finding that Uribe’s proposed social group lacked particularity, and that substantial evidence supported the denial of CAT relief. Although Uribe was removable based on a criminal offense covered by 8 U.S.C. § 1252(a)(2)(C), the panel concluded that this provision did not deprive it of jurisdiction to review Uribe’s asylum and withholding claims, because Uribe did not challenge the factual…