Morales v. Wilkinson
1 Citing case
Rodriguez-Zuniga v. Garland
69 F.4th 1012 (9th Cir. 2023) Cited 142 timesIn Rodriguez-Zuniga v. Garland, 69 F.4th 1012 (9th Cir. 2023), we held that "[w]here the record indicates that the persecutor's actual motivation for threatening a person is to extort money from a third person, the record does not compel finding that the persecutor threatened the target because of a protected characteristic such as family relation."
And nothing compels the conclusion that the robber in this case was motivated by anything other than underlying economic reasons, even though those economic motivations also resulted in threats to Rodriguez-Zuniga's son. See Juarez Morales v. Wilkinson, 836 F. App'x 603, 605 (9th Cir. 2021) (explaining that Ayala "is irrelevant . . . . [where the petitioner] offers no evidence that a protected ground was a reason for [her] extortion").