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PERLERA-ESCOBAR v. EXECUTIVE OFFICE FOR IMM.

No. 89-5064.

894 F.2d 1292 (1990)

Jose Adalberto PERLERA-ESCOBAR, a/k/a Santos Tirso Rodrigues, Petitioner, v. EXECUTIVE OFFICE FOR IMMIGRATION, and Immigration and Naturalization Service, Respondent.

United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit.

February 20, 1990.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Joan Friedland, American Friends Service Committee, South Miami, for petitioner.

Donald Couvillion, Robert Kendall, Jr., Francesco Isgro, Allen W. Hausman, Office of Immigration Litigation, Civ. Div., Dept. of Justice, Washington, D.C., for respondent.

Before HATCHETT and COX, Circuit Judges, and HENDERSON, Senior Circuit Judge.

PER CURIAM:

Petitioner, Jose Adalberto Perlera-Escobar, appeals the Board of Immigration Appeals' ("BIA") denial of his application for asylum and withholding of deportation under sections 208(a) and 243(h) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (the "Act"), 8 U.S.C. §§ 1158(a) and 1253(h) (1982) respectively. The BIA concluded that although Escobar had shown a genuine fear of persecution if returned to El Salvador, that persecution was not on account of...

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