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COSTA v. HOLDER

No. 12-1485.

733 F.3d 13 (2013)

Elisabete COSTA, Petitioner, v. Eric H. HOLDER., Jr., Attorney General, Respondent.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

October 4, 2013.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William E. Graves and Graves & Doyle on brief for petitioner.

Stuart F. Delery , Acting Assistant Attorney General, M. Jocelyn Lopez Wright , Senior Litigation Counsel, Office of Immigration Litigation, and Melissa K. Lott , Trial Attorney, Office of Immigration Litigation, on brief for respondent.

Before HOWARD, SELYA and THOMPSON, Circuit Judges.

HOWARD, Circuit Judge.

Elisabete Costa, a Brazilian citizen, petitions for review of the Board of Immigration Appeals' ("BIA") order affirming her removal to Brazil. Costa entered the United States illegally in 2003. Thereafter, she began working with Immigration and Customs Enforcement ("ICE") agents to identify sellers of fraudulent immigration documents. Because of her work, she faced harassment in the United States and reported threats back home in Brazil. Eventually...

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