U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Rodas-Urias v. Blanche
August 31, 2026
Summary
The court denied the petition in part and granted it in part. It upheld the denial of asylum, withholding of removal, and CAT relief for Rodas-Urias and Cruz-Perez, and it held that Cruz-Perez and Zavala-Cruz had not exhausted their withholding claims. The court remanded Zavala-Cruz's asylum claim because the agency relied on a factual finding that the immigration judge had not made. There are no separate opinions.