Escolar Documentos
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Cultura Documentos
No. 09-2171
Submitted:
Decided:
PER CURIAM:
Diana Maria Bermudez-Botero, a native and citizen of
Colombia,
petitions
for
review
of
the
Board
of
Immigration
Immigration
codified
overstayed
at
her
and
Nationality
U.S.C.
visa,
and
Act
(INA)
1227(a)(1)(B)
pursuant
to
237(a)(1)(B),
(2006),
INA
because
she
237(a)(2)(B)(i),
Bermudez-Botero
applied
for
withholding
of
In
removal,
social
group
of
displaced
women
without
family
support.
After
her
merits
hearing,
the
immigration
Homeland
Security
appealed,
and
the
judge
The Department
Board
vacated
the
Although
Bermudez-Botero
also
initially
requested
protection under the Convention Against Torture, because she
does not advance any argument relevant to that claim in her
informal brief, she has abandoned that issue on appeal. See 4th
Cir. R. 34(b); Edwards v. City of Goldsboro, 178 F.3d 231, 241
n.6 (4th Cir. 1999).
immigration
judges
order,
finding
displaced
women
without
covered
in
[] 1227(a)(2)(B).
In
turn,
21
U.S.C.
802
(2006).
U.S.C.
1227(a)(2)(B)(i).
which
are
undisputed,
fall
squarely
within
these
parameters.
However,
constitutional
we
claims
retain
or
jurisdiction
questions
of
to
law.
review
8
U.S.C.
Cir.
2007).
Bermudez-Boteros
argument
that
the
Board
novo. 2
Gomis v.
Holder, 571 F.3d 353, 359 (4th Cir. 2009), cert. denied, 130 S.
Ct. 1048 (2010) (internal quotation marks omitted).
This is a
Gandziami-
23
I.
&
N.
Dec.
951
(B.I.A.
2006).
As
See
re
succinctly
the
proposed
members
group
possess
(1)
must
have
characteristics
social
.
visibility,
visible
and
sufficient
particularity
to
avoid
indeterminacy, and
(3)
59
(1st
Cir.
2009)
(alterations
in
original)
(internal
and
any
attendant
regulations).
The
Board
applied
the
We find this
We
on
appeal
to
the
Board
and
thus
is
not
exhausted.
dispense
with
oral
argument
because
the
facts
and
legal