ERNESTO NAVAS v. I.N.S.

No. 98-70363.

217 F.3d 646 (2000)

Mario ERNESTO NAVAS, Petitioner, v. IMMIGRATION AND NATURALIZATION SERVICE, Respondent.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Filed June 20, 2000


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

L. Walker Van Antwerp, III, Los Angeles, California, for the petitioner.

Heather Phillips, United States Department of Justice, Office of Immigration Litigation, Washington, D.C., for the respondent.

Before: BRIGHT, REINHARDT, and TROTT, Circuit Judges.


REINHARDT, Circuit Judge:

Mario Ernesto Navas seeks review of the BIA's decision denying both asylum and withholding of deportation. Navas fled El Salvador at age 17 after members of the Salvadoran military murdered his aunt, shot at him, threatened him with death, and assaulted his mother. Previously, in 1988, Navas's uncle, a member of the Frente Farabundo Marti para la Liberacion Nacional (FMLN), a guerilla group opposed...

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