Legal Opinion
Anibal S. Mazariegos v. Office of the U.S. Attorney General, Immigration and Naturalization Service
Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
Decided February 22, 2001No. 99-4410PublishedCited by 155 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MARCUS, Circuit Judge:
This is a petition for review of a decision by the Board of Immigration Appeals (“BIA”) of the Immigration and Naturalization Service (“INS”). Petitioner Aníbal Mazariegos is a Guatemalan citizen who applied for asylum in the United States on the ground that he has a well-founded fear of persecution due to his political beliefs. Specifically, Mazariegos contends that he has been persecuted, and fears he will be again, by Guatemalan guerrillas who allegedly targeted him for his service in the Guatemalan army during that country’s civil war. The BIA rejected Mazariegos’s…
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