The Ninth Circuit noted that a changed country conditions motion to reopen can be partially premised on a change in personal circumstances, but that it also must show a change in related country conditions. “Instead, Petitioner provided evidence of changes in his personal circumstances, along with evidence supporting his argument that, given his changed personal circumstances, he could now be persecuted or tortured based on current country conditions in Mexico. What is noticeably absent from Petitioner’s ‘hybrid’ changed conditions claim is evidence of actual changed country conditions between 2003 and his 2016 motion to reopen.”
The full text of Rodriguez v. Garland can be found here:
https://cdn.ca9.uscourts.gov/datastore/opinions/2021/03/15/20-70240.pdf