United States Eleventh Circuit

Order dismissing appeal of denial of application for asylum and withholding of deportation is upheld where the BIA's interpretation of the Immigration and Nationality Act, that noncriminal informants working against the Cali drug cartel do not constitute a "articular social group" under the INA, was reasonable.

Appellate Information

• Decided 04/20/2006
• Published 04/20/2006

Judges

• BIRCH, Circuit Judge:, Before BIRCH and MARCUS, Circuit Judges, and NANGLE, District Judge.

Court

• United States Eleventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Michael D. Ray, Law Office of Michael D. Ray, Miami, FL, for Petitioners.


• For Appellees:
  
• Lyle D. Jentzer, David V. Bernal, Russell J.E. Verby, Douglas E. Ginsburg, U.S. Dept. of Justice, Civ. Div., OIL, Washington, DC, for Respondent.