Legal Opinion
Ramiro Melecio-Saquil v. John Ashcroft
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided July 25, 2003No. 02-2778PublishedCited by 59 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
LOKEN, Chief Judge.
Ramiro Melecio-Saquil is a Guatemalan citizen who entered the United States in 1994 without inspection. He petitions for review of an adverse decision of the Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA). The BIA denied Melecio’s application for asylum, withholding of removal, and protection under the Torture Convention. He appeals only the denial of his request for asylum. Because substantial evidence supports the finding that Melecio lacks a well-founded fear of persecution on account of his political opinion, we deny the petition for review.
Melecio was born in 1969 and lived in the…
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- Singh v. IlchertCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1995
- Saeed Ghasemimehr v. Immigration and Naturalization ServiceCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1993
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