Kramer Levin Secures Asylum for Honduran Journalist on Appeal

Kramer Levin won an appeal from the denial of asylum for a Honduran journalist who had been the victim of threats and attacks by local gang members in response to his anti-gang speech. The immigration judge denied asylum, finding that our client did not qualify as a member of a “particular social group.” Kramer Levin successfully argued to the Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA) that the immigration judge’s denial of asylum was an error. The BIA concluded that our client had demonstrated that he had suffered past persecution on account of his membership in a particular social group as a journalist who spoke publicly against narco-traffickers, and found that he had established eligibility for asylum. The BIA remanded the matter solely for the required security checks. Intellectual Property associate Marsha Sukach worked on the case, with assistance from Intellectual Property associate Anna Schoenfelder and supervision from Intellectual Property special counsel Aaron Frankel.