RAASS v. IMMIGRATION & NATURALIZATION SERV.

Nos. 82-7203, 82-7204.

692 F.2d 596 (1982)

Kisi Petelosanele RAASS, Petitioner, v. IMMIGRATION AND NATURALIZATION SERVICE, Respondent. Tevita NGALUAFE and Christina Ngaluafe, Petitioners, v. IMMIGRATION AND NATURALIZATION SERVICE, Respondent.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Decided November 10, 1982.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

J. Scott Tims, El Monte, Cal., for petitioners.

Ingrid Hrycenko, Asst. U.S. Atty., Los Angeles, Cal., for respondent.

Before CHAMBERS, ROBB and ALARCON, Circuit Judges.


These petitioners have been ordered deported to the Tonga nation where they were born. They assert that in Tonga they would be deprived of rights to land because they do not have the right lineal history.

The relief of asylum in the United States depends on something more than generalized economic disadvantage at the destination.

There is not substantial claim of a probable political persecution as decided under the heretofore decided cases.

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