Legal Opinion
Jose Benedicto Montecino v. Immigration and Naturalization Service
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided September 28, 1990No. 89-70008PublishedCited by 60 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
NOONAN, Circuit Judge:
Jose Benedicto Montecino-Reyes appeals from the denial from the Board of Immigration Appeals (the Board) of his petition for withholding of deportation and grant of political asylum. We reverse and remand.
FACTS
Montecino, born on September 4, 1962, was a resident of Canton Caulotillo Jurisdiction El Camón, La Union, El Salvador. In 1982 he served as a soldier in the army of El Salvador. At the end of the year in September 1983 — with or without permission, the evidence is ambiguous — he left the army and returned to his parents’ home in the small village in which they…
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