Legal Opinion
Cordero-Trejo v. Immigration & Naturalization Service
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided November 23, 1994No. 94-1385PublishedCited by 95 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BAILEY ALDRICH, Senior Circuit Judge.
Petitioner Juan Francisco Cordero Trejo claims the Board of Immigration Appeals (“Board”) erred in dismissing his appeal from a denial of asylum and withholding of deportation by the immigration judge. Cordero’s principal contention is that the Board, in summarily adopting the IJ’s conclusions, ignored substantial portions of the evidence and accepted inappropriate assumptions about how Guatemalan society operates in concluding that his claim to have a well-founded fear of persecution if returned to Guatemala contains fatal “inconsistencies” and…
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