CORDERO-TREJO v. I.N.S.

No. 94-1385.

40 F.3d 482 (1994)

Juan Francisco CORDERO-TREJO, Petitioner, v. IMMIGRATION AND NATURALIZATION SERVICE, Respondent.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Decided November 23, 1994.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Maureen O'Sullivan, with whom Harvey Kaplan, Jeremiah Friedman and Kaplan, O'Sullivan & Friedman, Boston, MA, were on brief for petitioner.

Iris Gomez, with whom Massachusetts Law Reform Institute, Boston, MA, was on brief for Guatemaltecos Unidos En Accion of Rhode Island and Massachusetts Immigrant and Refugee Advocacy Coalition, amici curiae.

Donald E. Keener, Office of Immigration Litigation, with whom Frank W. Hunger, Asst. Atty. Gen., and Philemina McNeill Jones, Office of Immigration Litigation, Washington, DC, were on brief for respondent.

Before BOUDIN, Circuit Judge, ALDRICH, Senior Circuit Judge, YOUNG, District Judge.


BAILEY ALDRICH, Senior Circuit Judge.

Petitioner Juan Francisco Cordero Trejo claims the Board of Immigration Appeals ("Board") erred in dismissing his appeal from a denial of asylum and withholding of deportation by the immigration judge. Cordero's principal contention is that the Board, in summarily adopting the IJ's conclusions, ignored substantial portions of the evidence and accepted inappropriate assumptions about how...

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