United States Ninth Circuit

Petition for review of a denial of asylum and withholding of removal is denied where the immigration judge properly found that petitioner "assisted in persecution" in connection with his services as an interpreter, and thus, was ineligible for asylum and withholding of removal.

Appellate Information

• Argued 07/15/2004
• Decided 03/21/2006
• Published 03/21/2006

Judges

• Before: B. FLETCHER, LEAVY, and BERZON, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Nadeem H. Makada, Burlingame, CA, for the petitioner.


• For Appellees:
  
• Thomas K. Ragland and Marshall Tamor Golding (on the brief), United States Department of Justice, Civil Division, Office of Immigration Litigation, Washington, D.C., for the respondent.