Legal Opinion
Antonio Mendez-Efrain v. Immigration & Naturalization Service
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided March 25, 1987No. 86-7241PublishedCited by 84 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
HUG, Circuit Judge:
Antonio Mendez-Efrain (“Mendez”) petitions for review of the BIA’s denial of asylum and withholding of deportation.
I. Background
The petitioner is a citizen and native of El Salvador. He is a field worker in a small rural region inhabited by approximately 125 people. On March 3, 1985, at the age of 25, he left El Salvador by visa to Mexico. Subsequently, he was apprehended in the United States and admitted deportability under 8 U.S.C. § 1251(a)(2) (1982) (entry without inspection).
Mendez presents three bases for his fear of persecution if he returns to El Salvador. First, he…
2Cases cited9 opinions
- Immigration & Naturalization Service v. StevicSupreme Court of the United States · 1984
- Espectacion Bolanos-Hernandez v. Immigration & Naturalization ServiceCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1985
- Rolando Lopez Chavez v. Immigration and Naturalization ServiceCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1984
- Salvador Humberto Zepeda-Melendez v. Immigration and Naturalization ServiceCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1984
- Rosa Candida Martinez-Romero v. Immigration and Naturalization ServiceCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1982
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3Cited by84 opinions
- Kamla Prasad Meena Kumari Prasad Catherine Sandhya Prasad Micky Sudesh Prasad Ricky Sumit Prasad v. Immigration & Naturalization ServiceCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1995
- Abdul Hakeem v. Immigration and Naturalization ServiceCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 2001
- Santos-Lemus v. MukaseyCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 2008
- Hamoudi H. KHOURASSANY; Hashem H. Khourassany; Fetam Khourassany, Petitioners, v. IMMIGRATION AND NATURALIZATION SERVICE, RespondentCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 2000
- Valli Kandiah Ravindran v. Immigration and Naturalization ServiceCourt of Appeals for the First Circuit · 1992
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