The First Circuit has remanded an Ecuadorian woman's asylum claim, finding that the agency failed to engage in the appropriate “mixed motives” analysis. “Testimony identifying a non-protected motivation animating an asylum applicant's persecutor is therefore insufficient in and of itself to defeat an asylum claim. That principle applies with particular force when, as here, an asylum applicant was persecuted during childhood, as rarely will an applicant know the exact motivation of her persecutors -- especially when she was victimized as a young child -- and, of course, persecutors may often have more than one motivation."
The full text of Mayancela Guaman v. Bondi can be found here:
https://www.ca1.uscourts.gov/sites/ca1/files/opnfiles/24-1295P-01A.pdf