Legal Opinion
Vivian C. ARUTA, Petitioner, v. IMMIGRATION AND NATURALIZATION SERVICE, Respondent
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided April 10, 1996No. 93-70981PublishedCited by 128 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
TROTT, Circuit Judge:
Vivian Calabio Aruta, a national and citizen of the Philippines, petitions for review of a Board of Immigration Appeal (“BIA”) decision denying her applications for asylum and withholding of deportation. The BIA determined that her alleged fear of persecution was not objectively reasonable, and alternatively that she failed to demonstrate a threat of countrywide persecution.
*1391We have jurisdiction over this timely petition pursuant to 8 U.S.C. § 1105a. We deny the petition in its entirety.
I. BACKGROUND
A
Ms. Aruta entered the United States in February, 1985 on a tourist visa,…
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