Legal Opinion

Guzman v. Immigration & Naturalization Service

Court of Appeals for the First Circuit

Decided April 28, 2003No. 02-1762PublishedCited by 90 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

LEVIN H. CAMPBELL, Senior Circuit Judge.

German Guzman (“Guzman”), a native and citizen of Guatemala, petitions for review of the denial by the Board of Immigration Appeals (“BIA”) of his application for asylum and for the withholding of removal, and his motion to remand in order to apply for protection under the Convention Against Torture. 1 See 8 U.S.C. § 1252(a)(1999). We affirm the order of the BIA and deny the petition.

BACKGROUND

Guzman entered the United States illegally on January 5,1990, somewhere along the Mexican border. On June 26, 1997, the Immigration and Naturalization Service…

2Cases cited9 opinions

  1. Immigration & Naturalization Service v. Elias-ZacariasSupreme Court of the United States · 1992
  2. Immigration & Naturalization Service v. AbuduSupreme Court of the United States · 1988
  3. Aguilar-Solis v. Immigration & Naturalization ServiceCourt of Appeals for the First Circuit · 1999
  4. Valli Kandiah Ravindran v. Immigration and Naturalization ServiceCourt of Appeals for the First Circuit · 1992
  5. Jan Kapcia v. Immigration & Naturalization Service, Stanislaw Saulo v. Immigration & Naturalization ServiceCourt of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit · 1991

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3Cited by90 opinions

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