Alvarenga Vides v. Blanche

── Alvarenga Vides v. Blanche ── Court: Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit Date: June 10, 2026 Category: General 24-301 Alvarenga Vides v. Blanche BIA Straus, IJ A209 866 562/563 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 10th day of June, two thousand twenty- 4 six. 5 6 PRESENT: 7 SUSAN L. CARNEY, 8 JOSEPH F. BIANCO, 9 SARAH A. L. MERRIAM, 10 Circuit Judges. 11 _____________________________________ 12 13 PATRICIA ELIZABETH ALVARENGA 14 VIDES, J.J.G.A.,∗ 15 Petitioners, 16 17 v. 24-301 18 NAC 19 TODD BLANCHE, ACTING UNITED ∗ We have used only initials to refer to the minor petitioner in this publicly accessible order, in accordance with Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 5.2(a)(3) and Federal Rule of Appellate Procedure 25(a)(5).  1 STATES ATTORNEY GENERAL, 2 Respondent. 3 _____________________________________ 4 5 FOR PETITIONERS: Glenn L. Formica, Formica P.C., New Haven, 6 CT. 7 8 FOR RESPONDENT: Brian M. Boynton, Principal Deputy Assistant 9 Attorney General; Anthony C. Payne, 10 Assistant Director; Raya Jarawan, 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 Patricia Elizabeth Alvarenga Vides and her minor son, natives 18 and citizens of El Salvador, seek review of a January 9, 2024 decision of the BIA 19 affirming a June 15, 2021 decision of an Immigration Judge (“IJ”) denying 20 Alvarenga Vides’s application for asylum, withholding of removal, and relief 21 under the Convention Against Torture (“CAT”). In re Patricia Elizabeth Alvarenga 22 Vides, Nos. A 209 866 562/563 (B.I.A. Jan. 9, 2024), aff’g Nos. A 209 866 562/563 23 (Immig. Ct. Hartford June 15, 2021). We assume the parties’ familiarity with the 24 underlying facts and procedural history. 2  1 We have reviewed the IJ’s decision as supplemented by the BIA. See Yan 2 Chen v. Gonzales, 417 F.3d 268, 271 (2d Cir. 2005). We review fact-finding and the 3 application of law to fact for substantial evidence, Urias-Orellana v. Bondi, 146 S. 4 Ct. 845, 851 (2026), and we review questions of law de novo, Hong Fei Gao v. 5 Sessions, 891 F.3d 67, 76 (2d Cir. 2018). “[T]he administrative findi