Villa Villa v. Blanche

── Villa Villa v. Blanche ── Court: Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit Date: April 27, 2026 Category: General 23-7907 Villa Villa v. Blanche BIA Mungoven, IJ A216 904 651/652/653 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 27th day of April, two thousand 4 twenty-six. 5 6 PRESENT: 7 JOHN M. WALKER, JR., 8 RAYMOND J. LOHIER, JR., 9 MYRNA PÉREZ, 10 Circuit Judges. 11 _____________________________________ 12 13 MARLON RAMIRO VILLA VILLA, 14 JESSICA LISSETH TELLO CASTRO, 15 I.D.V.T., 16 Petitioners, 17 18 v. 23-7907 19 NAC 20 TODD BLANCHE, ACTING UNITED 21 STATES ATTORNEY GENERAL,  1 Respondent. * 2 _____________________________________ 3 4 FOR PETITIONERS: Michael Borja, Esq., Borja Law Firm, P.C., 5 Jackson Heights, NY. 6 7 FOR RESPONDENT: Brian Boynton, Principal Deputy Assistant 8 Attorney General; Nancy Friedman, Justin R. 9 Markel, Senior Litigation Counsel, Office of 10 Immigration Litigation, United States 11 Department of Justice, Washington, DC. 12 UPON DUE CONSIDERATION of this petition for review of a Board of 13 Immigration Appeals (“BIA”) decision, it is hereby ORDERED, ADJUDGED, AND 14 DECREED that the petition for review is DENIED. 15 Petitioners Marlon Ramiro Villa Villa, his wife Jessica Lisseth Tello Castro, 16 and their minor child, natives and citizens of Ecuador, seek review of an October 17 31, 2023 decision of the BIA affirming a July 29, 2022 decision of an Immigration 18 Judge (“IJ”) denying their applications for asylum, withholding of removal, and 19 relief under the Convention Against Torture (“CAT”). 1 In re Villa Villa, Nos. A 20 216 904 651/652/653 (B.I.A. Oct. 31, 2023), aff’g Nos. A 216 904 651/652/653 * The Clerk of Court is directed to amend the caption as set forth above. 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.. 1 We principally refer to Villa Villa because the other petitioners relied on his allegations. 2  1 (Immig. Ct. N.Y.C. July 29, 2022). We assume the parties’ familiarity with the 2 underlying facts and procedural history, to which we refer only as necessary to 3 explain our decision to deny the petition. 4 We have reviewed the IJ’s decision as supplemented by the BIA. See Yan 5 Chen v. Gonzales, 417 F.3d