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YOUSSEFINIA v. I.N.S.

No. 85-4290.

784 F.2d 1254 (1986)

Mohammad Reza YOUSSEFINIA and Fahime Asadamraji, Petitioners, v. IMMIGRATION & NATURALIZATION SERVICE, Respondent.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

March 14, 1986.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Harvey A. Schein, Eugene J. Flynn, Dallas, Tex., for petitioners.

Edwin Meese, III, Atty. Gen., U.S. Dept. of Justice, Washington, D.C., Robert L. Bombough, Allen W. Hausman, Donald A. Couvillon, Immigration Lit., Civ. Div., Washington, D.C., for respondent.

David H. Lambert, Dist. Director, I.N.S., New Orleans, La., Ronald Chandler, Dist. Director, I.N.S., Dallas, Tex., for other interested parties.

Before WILLIAMS, HIGGINBOTHAM and DAVIS, Circuit Judges.

PATRICK E. HIGGINBOTHAM, Circuit Judge:

This case comes before us on a petition for review of a denial of applications for asylum and suspension of deportation by the Immigration and Naturalization Service. Because we find that the immigration judge and the Board of Immigration Appeals did not abuse their discretion in determining that petitioners failed to establish either a well-founded fear of persecution or extreme hardship resulting from deportation, we uphold...

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