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Try CasePortal for FreeJ. Sung grants an immigrant's petition for review of an immigration judge’s decision upholding an asylum officer’s negative reasonable fear determination following the reinstatement of a prior order of removal. The immigrant’s credible testimony sufficiently established a reasonable fear of persecution or torture. The immigrant testified that three cartels seek to control the region around his hometown in Mexico. Autodefensa, a local community defense group, fights to prevent cartel influence. The cartels carry out weekly attacks to kill Autodefensa members, and target families of community defense members to erode resistance to cartel control. The immigrant's uncle is the leader of Autodefensa and his father and three other uncles are or were members, before some of them were killed. The immigrant fears that, if removed to Mexico, the cartels will discover his identity as a relative of Autodefensa members and kill him.