United States Eleventh Circuit

Asylum applicant must prove that he faces persecution throughout his entire country, and not just in an isolated area, to qualify for "refugee" status under the Immigration and Naturalization Act ("INA"), 8 USC 1101, et seq.

Appellate Information

• Decided 02/12/2001
• Published 02/12/2001

Judges

• MARCUS, Circuit Judge:, Before EDMONDSON and MARCUS, Circuit Judges, and RESTANI, Judge.

Court

• United States Eleventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Philip Allen Turtletaub, Miami, FL, for Petitioner.


• For Appellees:
  
• Pauline Terrelonge, David V. Bernal, John P. Moran, Mark C. Walters, U.S. Dept. of Justice/Civ. Div./Office of Immigration Lit., Washington, DC, for Respondents.