Legal Opinion
Palma-Mazariegos v. Gonzales
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided October 28, 2005No. 05-1330PublishedCited by 61 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SELYA, Circuit Judge.
The petitioner, Efrain Palma-Mazarie-gos, is a Guatemalan national. He seeks judicial review of a final order of the Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA) deny ing his application for asylum, withholding of removal, and protection under the United Nations Convention Against Torture (CAT), maintaining that the immigration judge (IJ) and the BIA incorrectly found that changed country conditions in Guatemala eliminated any objectively reasonable fear of future prosecution should he be forced to return to his native land. We conclude that the record contains substantial evidence…
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