United States First Circuit

Petition for a review of an order affirming both an order of removal and the concomitant denial of a cross-application for asylum, withholding of removal, and protection under the Convention Against Torture is denied where plaintiff failed to prove that she had a well-founded fear of future persecution, and the Board of Immigration Appeals' decision to deny the application for asylum was supported by substantial evidence.

Appellate Information

• Decided 06/30/2009
• Published 06/30/2009

Judges

• SELYA, Circuit Judge., Before:  TORRUELLA, SELYA and TASHIMA, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States First Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Stephanie F. Dyson and Dyson Law, P.C. on brief for petitioner.


• For Appellees:
  
• Michael F. Hertz, Acting Assistant Attorney General, Civil Division, Terri J. Scadron, Assistant Director, and Siu P. Wong, Trial Attorney, Office of Immigration Litigation, on brief for respondent.