Borja-Pacheco v. Blanche

── Borja-Pacheco v. Blanche ── Court: Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit Date: April 28, 2026 Category: General 23-8052 Borja-Pacheco v. Blanche BIA Gundlach, IJ A220 597 409, A216 699 203/204/205 UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE SECOND CIRCUIT SUMMARY ORDER RULINGS BY SUMMARY ORDER DO NOT HAVE PRECEDENTIAL EFFECT. CITATION TO A SUMMARY ORDER FILED ON OR AFTER JANUARY 1, 2007, IS PERMITTED AND IS GOVERNED BY FEDERAL RULE OF APPELLATE PROCEDURE 32.1 AND THIS COURT’S LOCAL RULE 32.1.1. WHEN CITING A SUMMARY ORDER IN A DOCUMENT FILED WITH THIS COURT, A PARTY MUST CITE EITHER THE FEDERAL APPENDIX OR AN ELECTRONIC DATABASE (WITH THE NOTATION “SUMMARY ORDER”). A PARTY CITING A SUMMARY ORDER MUST SERVE A COPY OF IT ON ANY PARTY NOT REPRESENTED BY COUNSEL. 1 At a stated term of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second 2 Circuit, held at the Thurgood Marshall United States Courthouse, 40 Foley 3 Square, in the City of New York, on the 28th day of April, two thousand 4 twenty-six. 5 6 PRESENT: 7 PIERRE N. LEVAL, 8 RAYMOND J. LOHIER, JR., 9 SARAH A. L. MERRIAM, 10 Circuit Judges. 11 _____________________________________ 12 13 LUIS GUILLERMO BORJA-PACHECO, 14 RUTH ALEXANDRA SANGURIMA- 15 LLIVIGANAY, S.A.B.-S., M.N.B.-S., 1 16 Petitioners, 17 18 v. 23-8052 19 NAC 20 TODD BLANCHE, ACTING UNITED 1 We use only initials to refer to the minor petitioners in this publicly accessible order.  1 STATES ATTORNEY GENERAL, 2 2 Respondent. 3 _____________________________________ 4 5 FOR PETITIONERS: Michael Borja, Borja Law Firm, P.C., Jackson 6 Heights, NY. 7 8 FOR RESPONDENT: Brian Boynton, Principal Deputy Assistant 9 Attorney General; John S. Hogan, Assistant 10 Director; Nicole J. Thomas-Dorris, Trial 11 Attorney, Office of Immigration Litigation, 12 United States Department of Justice, 13 Washington, DC. 14 UPON DUE CONSIDERATION of this petition for review of a Board of 15 Immigration Appeals (“BIA”) decision, it is hereby ORDERED, ADJUDGED, AND 16 DECREED that the petition for review is DENIED. 17 Petitioners Luis Guillermo Borja-Pacheco, Ruth Alexandra Sangurima- 18 Lliviganay, and their minor children, natives and citizens of Ecuador, seek review 19 of a November 17, 2023, decision of the BIA affirming an October 27, 2022, decision 20 of an Immigration Judge (“IJ”) denying asylum, withholding of removal, and relief 21 under the Convention Against Torture (“CAT”). In re Luis Guillermo Borja- 22 Pacheco, et al., Nos. A 220 597 409, A216 699 203/204/205 (B.I.A. Nov. 17, 2023), aff’g 2 Pursuant to Federal Rule of Appellate Procedure 43(c)(2), Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche is automatically substituted for former Attorney General Pamela Bondi as Respondent. 2 1 Nos. A 220 597 409, A216 699 203/204/205 (Immig. Ct. N.Y. City Oct. 27, 2022). We 2 assume the parties’ familiarity with the underlying facts and procedural history. 3 We have reviewed the IJ’s decision as modified and supplemented by the 4 BIA. See Xue Hong Yang v. U.S. Dep’t of Just., 426 F.3d 520, 522 (2d Cir. 2005);