Legal Opinion
Juan Antonio Morales v. Immigration and Naturalization Service
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided April 5, 2000No. 98-1719PublishedCited by 75 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BOWNES, Senior Circuit Judge.
We granted Juan Antonio Morales’ petition for rehearing because in our original opinion, issued on October 19, 1999, we misstated in part the burden of proof required to prove a well-founded fear of persecution by applicants if they are deported to their homeland. We stated:
To prove a well-founded fear of persecution, the “applicant’s fear must be both genuine and objectively reasonable.” [Aguilar-Solis v. INS, 168 F.3d 565, 572 (1st Cir.1999) ] (citing Alvarez-Flores v. INS, 909 F.2d 1, 5 (1st Cir.1990)). The applicants must prove that “it is more likely than not…
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