Legal Opinion
Jose Roberto Canas-Segovia Oscar Iban Canas-Segovia v. Immigration and Naturalization Service
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided April 24, 1990No. 88-7444PublishedCited by 29 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
EUGENE A. WRIGHT, Circuit Judge:
We consider whether El Salvador’s forcible conscription policy amounts to persecution under the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) when applied to conscientious objector Jehovah’s Witnesses. Both the immigration judge (IJ) and Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA) answered this query in the negative when they denied asylum and withholding of deportation relief to petitioners Jose and Oscar Canas-Segovia. We now REVERSE and REMAND with instructions to grant the requested relief.
BACKGROUND
Jose and Oscar Canas-Segovia (the Ca-ñases) are brothers and natives of El…
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3Cited by29 opinions
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