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MEDRANO-VILLATORO v. I.N.S.

No. 88-4514 Summary Calendar.

866 F.2d 132 (1989)

Juan Antonio MEDRANO-VILLATORO, Petitioner, v. IMMIGRATION & NATURALIZATION SERVICE, Respondent.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

February 21, 1989.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Joshua Turin, Cazorla, Bates & Turin, Dallas, Tex., for Medrano-villatoro.

Richard Thornburgh, Atty. Gen., Carl H. McIntyre, Alice M. Smith, David J. Kline, Robert L. Bombough, Dir., Office of Immigration Litigation, Civ. Div., Washington, D.C., for I.N.S.

Ronald Chandler, Dist. Dir., I.N.S., Dallas, Tex., B.Z. Caplinger, Dist. Dir., I.N.S., New Orleans, La., for other interested parties.

Before REAVLEY, POLITZ and JONES, Circuit Judges.

REAVLEY, Circuit Judge:

The petitioner, a citizen of El Salvador, applied for asylum and withholding of deportation on the basis of his fear of persecution by communist rebels should he be returned to El Salvador. The immigration judge denied relief, holding that the petitioner had not met his burden of proving that he had a well-founded fear of persecution or that such persecution was more likely than not. The Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA) summarily dismissed...

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