Harm Motivated by Money Not Sufficient Reason for Asylum

The alleged targeting of an El Salvadoran immigrant for extortion was insufficient for her to qualify for asylum or withholding of removal, the US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit said.

Aurelia Acuna-De Garcia alleged she was the victim of extortion in 2015 because she was constructing a home on the same piece of property that her father was building when her parents were slain nearly 30 years ago, the court said. She said the attackers were after the land, were connected to the deaths of her parents, or specifically targeted her because her husband was making money in ...