Legal Opinion
Santos Higinio Ramirez-Ramos v. Immigration & Naturalization Service
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided April 15, 1987No. 86-7163PublishedCited by 58 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
TANG, Circuit Judge:
Ramirez-Ramos petitions for review of the Bureau of Immigration Appeals’ (BIA or Board) dismissal of his appeal from the Immigration Judge’s (IJ) denial of his application for withholding of deportation pursuant to 8 U.S.C. § 1253(h). As an ex-union leader and activist in anti-government organizations in El Salvador, Ramirez argues he has shown a clear probability of persecution on account of his political opinions and affiliations. The BIA denied his application because his California state court conviction of selling heroin rendered him statutorily ineligible for the…
2Cases cited5 opinions
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- Masoud Mahini v. Immigration & Naturalization ServiceCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1986
- Eduardo Crespo-Gomez v. Louis M. RichardCourt of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit · 1986
3Cited by58 opinions
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