United States First Circuit

Petition for review of an order denying asylum, withholding of removal, and protection under the Convention Against Torture is denied where the Board of Immigration Appeal's brevis treatment of the petitioners' claims of past persecution was adequate, and Board was not compelled to find that the petitioners' claimed fear of future persecution was well-founded given given the lack of past persecution, the continued uneventful presence in Indonesia of close family members, and the country conditions evidence.

Appellate Information

• Decided 07/23/2009
• Published 07/23/2009

Judges

• HOWARD, Circuit Judge., Before LIPEZ and HOWARD, Circuit Judges, and WOODCOCK, District Judge.

Court

• United States First Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• William A. Hahn and Hahn & Matkov for petitioners.


• For Appellees:
  
• Michael F. Hertz, Acting Assistant Attorney General, Civil Division, Cindy S. Ferrier, Senior Litigation Counsel and Sunah Lee, Trial Attorney, Office of Immigration Litigation, United States Department of Justice, on brief for respondent.