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ANANEH-FIREMPONG v. I.N.S.

No. 84-1997.

766 F.2d 621 (1985)

Beatrice ANANEH-FIREMPONG, Petitioner, v. IMMIGRATION AND NATURALIZATION SERVICE, Respondent.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Decided June 24, 1985.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Raymond H. Young, Boston, Mass., with whom Young & Bayle, Boston, Mass., and Jonathan H. Stevenson were on brief, for petitioner.

James A. Hunolt, Acting Asst. Director, Washington, D.C., with whom Michael P. Lindemann, Office of Immigration Litigation, Civ. Div., U.S. Dept. of Justice, and Richard K. Willard, Acting Asst. Atty. Gen., Washington, D.C., were on brief, for respondent.

Before CAMPBELL, Chief Judge, BOWNES and BREYER, Circuit Judges.

BREYER, Circuit Judge.

The petitioner, Beatrice Ananeh-Firempong, asked the Immigration and Naturalization Service to reopen her deportation proceedings so that she could present a claim for withholding of deportation, on the ground that she was a `political' or `social' refugee. 8 U.S.C. § 1253(h). An immigration judge granted her motion to reopen, but the Board of Immigration Appeals reversed, stating that she had failed to make out a prima facie case that...

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