United States First Circuit

Petition for review of a denial of an application for asylum and withholding of removal is denied where the BIA's determination that the government of El Salvador was willing and able to control petitioner's potential persecutors was supported by substantial evidence.

Appellate Information

• Decided 10/11/2007
• Published 10/11/2007

Judges

• LIPEZ, Circuit Judge., Before TORRUELLA and LIPEZ, Circuit Judges, and FUSTÉ, District Judge.

Court

• United States First Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• John P. Garan on brief for petitioner.


• For Appellees:
  
• James E. Grimes, Senior Litigation Counsel, Office of Immigration Litigation, Peter D. Keisler, Assistant Attorney General, and Linda S. Wernery, Assistant Director, Office of Immigration Litigation, on brief, for respondent.