Legal Opinion
Florentin Umanzor-Alvarado v. Immigration and Naturalization Service
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided February 15, 1990No. 89-1550PublishedCited by 49 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BREYER, Circuit Judge.
The petitioner, Florentin Umanzor Alvarado, a native of El Salvador, seeks asylum under a statute that would allow the Attorney General to permit him to stay here if he has “a well-founded fear of persecution on account of [his] ... political opinion.” 8 U.S.C. § 1101(a)(42)(A) (defining “refugee”); 8 U.S.C. § 1158(a) (giving Attorney General discretion to grant asylum to otherwise deportable alien who qualifies as refugee). Cf. 8 U.S.C. § 1253(h); INS v. Cardoza-Fonseca, 480 U.S. 421, 423, 429, 107 S.Ct. 1207, 1209, 1211, 94 L.Ed.2d 434 (1987) (withholding of…
2Cases cited9 opinions
- Universal Camera Corp. v. National Labor Relations BoardSupreme Court of the United States · 1951
- Immigration & Naturalization Service v. Cardoza-FonsecaSupreme Court of the United States · 1987
- Espectacion Bolanos-Hernandez v. Immigration & Naturalization ServiceCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1985
- Manuel Diaz Arteaga v. Immigration and Naturalization ServiceCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1988
- Rene Adan Contreras-Aragon v. Immigration and Naturalization ServiceCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1988
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3Cited by49 opinions
- Cristina Galeas Castaneda v. Immigration & Naturalization ServiceCourt of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit · 1994
- David Wachira Ngarurih v. John D. Ashcroft, Attorney General of the United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit · 2004
- Mariusz Kaczmarczyk v. Immigration and Naturalization ServiceCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 1991
- Valli Kandiah Ravindran v. Immigration and Naturalization ServiceCourt of Appeals for the First Circuit · 1992
- Bocova v. GonzalesCourt of Appeals for the First Circuit · 2005
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