The First Circuit has denied petitions for review filed by a Brazilian family who were denied asylum after military police repeatedly harassed and threatened relatives at the maternal grandmother's house, which the family visited but did not live in, because the mother's brother was a wanted gang leader who had once lived there.
The Court held that substantial evidence supported the agency's conclusion that the petitioners themselves were never physically harmed and that the harm inflicted on their relatives was only limited and indirect, since the police appeared to be targeting the grandmother's house as the suspected locus of the brother's criminal activity rather than the family as such. The Court also upheld the agency's rejection of the petitioners' argument that they were similarly situated to an aunt who was separately granted asylum, since that aunt had been physically arrested and lived at the targeted house, unlike the petitioners.
The full text of Pereira Alves v. Blanche can be found here: https://www.ca1.uscourts.gov/sites/ca1/files/opnfiles/24-1686P-01A.pdf