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Type
Opinion
Author
Eugene Edward Siler Jr.
Filed
Feb. 13, 2025
Case
Leonel Bonilla-Cruz v. Pamela Bondi
Case status
Decided

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NOT RECOMMENDED FOR PUBLICATION File Name: 25a0092n.06 Case No. 24-3290 UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE SIXTH CIRCUIT FILED Feb 13, 2025 KELLY L. STEPHENS, Clerk ) LEONEL BONILLA-CRUZ, ) Petitioner, ) ON PETITION FOR REVIEW ) FROM THE UNITED STATES v. ) BOARD OF IMMIGRATION ) APPEALS PAMELA BONDI, Attorney General, ) Respondent. ) OPINION ) Before: SILER, CLAY, and READLER, Circuit Judges. SILER, Circuit Judge. Leonel Bonilla-Cruz (“Bonilla-Cruz”), a native and citizen of El Salvador, petitions this court for review of the Board of Immigration Appeals (“BIA”) and Immigration Judge (“IJ”) decisions denying his applications for relief under the Convention Against Torture (“CAT”) and for cancellation of removal based on extremely unusual hardship to his U.S.-citizen wife and children. Because the BIA and IJ explained their decisions well enough for us to review them and they pass the applicable deferential standards of review, we deny the petition for review. I. Bonilla-Cruz entered the United States without inspection in 2012. He settled in Maryland and joined a church, where he met Nincy. The two married in 2019, and they share two young children. Bonilla-Cruz is reportedly a…

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