Legal Opinion

Sasetharan Arulampalam v. John Ashcroft, Attorney General

Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit

Decided December 19, 2003No. 02-71267PublishedCited by 151 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

BERZON, Circuit Judge.

Sasetharan Arulampalam, a native and citizen of Sri Lanka, petitions for review of the Board of Immigration Appeals’ (“BIA”) affirmance of an Immigration Judge’s (“IJ”) denial of his applications for asylum, withholding of removal, and relief under the Convention Against Torture (“CAT”). We have jurisdiction under 8 U.S.C. § 1252. As the BIA adopted the IJ’s reasoning, we review the latter, Paramasamy v. Ashcroft, 295 F.3d 1047, 1050 (9th Cir.2002), grant the petition for review, and remand.

BACKGROUND

Arulampalam was born on November 20, 1978 in northern Sri Lanka, where…

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