United States Eleventh Circuit

Petitions for review of denials of applications for asylum and withholding of removal are denied, as the record does not compel the conclusion that petitioners' fear of persecution is on account of their political opinion when their persecutors have murdered members of their family for their refusal to pay a "war tax" to a Marxist paramilitary organization, the Sixth Front of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia.

Appellate Information

• Decided 05/23/2007
• Published 05/23/2007

Judges

• PRYOR, Circuit Judge:, Before PRYOR, KRAVITCH and ALARCON, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Eleventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Charles H. Kuck, Kuck, Casablanca, LLC, Atlanta, GA, for Petitioners.


• For Appellees:
  
• Dirk C. Phillips, Marie K. McElderry, Mark L. Gross, U.S. Dept. of Justice, Civ. Rights Div., App. Section, Washington, DC, for Respondent.