United States Third Circuit

Petition for review of the BIA's denial of applications for asylum and withholding of deportation is affirmed, where the record does not support Palestinian petitioner's claims that he has a well-founded fear that, if returned to Saudi Arabia, he will be persecuted as a member of a particular social group under 8 U.S.C. section 1101(a)(42).

Appellate Information

• Decided 08/20/2003
• Published 08/20/2003

Judges

• Before SLOVITER, AMBRO, Circuit Judges, and TUCKER, District Judge.

Court

• United States Third Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Laraine A. Ryan, Wilmington, DE, for Petitioner.


• For Appellees:
  
• Robert D. McCallum, Jr., Assistant Attorney General, Civil Division, Emily Anne Radford, Assistant Director, Aviva L. Poczter, Trial Attorney, Office of Immigration Litigation, Civil Division, Department of Justice, Washington, DC, for Respondent.