Legal Opinion
Im v. Gonzales
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided August 13, 2007No. 05-70027PublishedCited by 3 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BETTY B. FLETCHER, Circuit Judge:
I. Facts
In 1975 the Khmer Rouge seized power in Cambodia. Petitioner Im- — then 22 years old and one year out of high school- — was impressed into service as a forced laborer for the new totalitarian regime, and his family was killed. Four years later, the Vietnamese army invaded Cambodia, removing the Khmer Rouge from power. Vietnamese troops arrested Im in July of 1979. No criminal charges were ever filed against Im, and the army installed him as a prison guard in PJ, a small prison in Phnom Penh that housed between 35 and 70 prisoners, including a number of…
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- Pankaj Karan Singh Kataria v. Immigration and Naturalization ServiceCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 2000
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