9th Circ. Says Wealth Doesn't Merit Asylum

By Tiffany Hu (December 8, 2017, 5:51 PM EST) -- The Ninth Circuit affirmed on Thursday a Board of Immigration Appeals' decision tossing a Mexican native's pleading that he qualified for protection from removal proceedings because he is part of a social group of those perceived to have money, saying the group was "too amorphous to be particular."...

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