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RAMIREZ RIVAS v. I.N.S.

No. 88-7463.

899 F.2d 864 (1990)

Patricia RAMIREZ RIVAS, Petitioner, v. IMMIGRATION & NATURALIZATION SERVICE, Respondent.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Decided March 29, 1990.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Karen Musalo, University of San Francisco Law Clinic, San Francisco, Cal., for petitioner.

Alice Smith, Office of Immigration Litigation, Washington, D.C., for respondent.

Before ALDISERT, TANG and FLETCHER, Circuit Judges.

FLETCHER, Circuit Judge:

Patricia Ramirez Rivas1 petitions for review of the decision of the Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA) denying her withholding of deportation and asylum. We grant the petition for review and reverse the BIA's decision on both withholding of deportation and asylum.

FACTS

Petitioner Patricia Ramirez Rivas left El Salvador in February of 1983, when she was fifteen years old. She has a mother and...

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