United States First Circuit

Petition for review of a denial of an application for asylum is denied where the IJ and the BIA relied upon substantial record evidence to support the determination that the petitioners had failed to prove either past persecution or a well-founded fear of future persecution.

Appellate Information

• Decided 11/01/2007
• Published 11/01/2007

Judges

• CYR, Senior Circuit Judge., Before LYNCH, Circuit Judge, CYR, Senior Circuit Judge, and HOWARD, Circuit Judge.

Court

• United States First Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Robert D. Watt, Jr., on brief for petitioners.


• For Appellees:
  
• Peter D. Keisler, Acting Attorney General, David V. Bernal, Assistant Director, and Lindsay E. Williams, Attorney, Office of Immigration Litigation, U.S. Department of Justice, on brief for respondent.