Legal Opinion
Mlawaa I. Abdalla, Also Known as Miawea Abdalla v. Immigration & Naturalization Service
Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit
Decided December 29, 1994No. 93-9590, 94-9530PublishedCited by 32 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
STEPHEN' H. ANDERSON, Circuit Judge.
Petitioner, a native and citizen of Sudan, challenges an order of the Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA) affirming the decision of the Immigration Judge (IJ) denying his application for asylum or withholding of deportation. 1 The IJ held that petitioner had failed to meet his burden of showing either past political persecution or a well-founded fear of such persecution sufficient to warrant asylum and that, a fortiori, petitioner could not satisfy the stricter “clear probability of persecution” standard for withholding of deportation. See Castaneda v. INS,…
2Cases cited8 opinions
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- Felipe Gustavo Rivera-Zurita v. Immigration & Naturalization ServiceCourt of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit · 1991
- Thanh Huu Nguyen v. Immigration & Naturalization ServiceCourt of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit · 1993
- Chinese American Civic Council v. Attorney General of the United StatesCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1977
- Kiumars Farbakhsh v. Immigration and Naturalization ServiceCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1994
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3Cited by32 opinions
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