Herbert Edmundo Gomez-Vigil and Silvia Auxiladora Hernandez De Gomez v. Immigration and Naturalization Service

In Castillo-Villagra v. INS, 972 F.2d 1017 (9th Cir.1992), a Nicaraguan national *1112and her two daughters appealed to the Board of Immigration Appeals an adverse decision of an immigration judge who had denied the aliens’ request for asylum or withholding of deportation. The aliens contended that they would be persecuted because of their stated anti-Sandinista sentiments were they to return to their homeland. In denying their appeal, the Board took administrative notice “that the Sandinista Party no longer governs Nicaragua.” The Board did not give prior notification of its taking notice of the…