United States Fourth Circuit

Petition to review decision denying petitioner asylum and withholding of removal to El Salvador is denied where: 1) the Government erred in its contention that the court lacked jurisdiction to review the BIA's refusal to refer a case to a three-member panel; 2) the BIA's subsequent precedential decision eliminated the need for such three-judge review; 3) the BIA's decision accorded with its subsequent precedential decision; and 4) the record lent adequate support for the finding of the Immigration Judge and the BIA that neither religion nor political opinion initiated, escalated, perpetuated, or otherwise constituted a central reason for the persecution against petitioner.

Appellate Information

• Decided 02/11/2009
• Published 02/11/2009

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Court

• United States Fourth Circuit

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