Legal Opinion
Jose M. Sarvia-Quintanilla v. United States Immigration and Naturalization Service
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided August 19, 1985No. 84-7485PublishedCited by 109 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SNEED, Circuit Judge:
Jose Mauricio Sarvia-Quintanilla petitions this court for review of the Immigration and Naturalization Service’s denial of his application for political asylum and withholding of deportation. Because substantial evidence supports the decision of the Board of Immigration Appeals, we deny his petition.
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FACTS AND PROCEEDINGS BELOW
The petitioner is a twenty-six year old native and citizen of El Salvador. Before he left his country, he joined the Forces Revolutionales el Loranes (F.R.S.), a leftist political group organized to help poor people and to “overthrow the…
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