The Ninth Circuit responds to the BIA in Pirir-Boc v. Holder.

Sunday, May 11th, 2014

The Ninth Circuit published a “particular social group” case this week, another salvo in the particular social group definition dialectic of the BIA and the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. The term “particular social group” relates to one of the five grounds for granting asylum, which I blogged about most recently hereĀ  and here. The most recent post was about two BIA cases, Matter of W-G-R- and Matter of M-E-V-G-, which addressed particular social group in the gang context. The…