Legal Opinion
V-T-S
Board of Immigration Appeals
Decided July 1, 1997No. ID 3308PublishedCited by 60 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Interim Decision #3308 In re V-T-S-, Respondent Decided March 6, 1997 U.S. Department of Justice Executive Office for Immigration Review Board of Immigration Appeals (1) Although kidnapping is a very serious offense, the seriousness of conduct is not dispositive in determining persecution, which does not encompass all treatment that society regards as unfair, unjust, or even unlawful or unconstitutional. (2) While there may be a number of reasons for a kidnapping, an asylum applicant bears the burden of establishing that one motivation was to persecute him on account of an enumer- ated…
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