Guatemalan Gang Slashing Wasn’t Persecution, 8th Circ. Says

A Guatemalan citizen whose face was cut by gang members doesn’t qualify as a refugee because the incident that led him to flee to the U.S. was a one-time occurrence that doesn’t count as persecution, the Eighth Circuit ruled Thursday…

Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.

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