LOPEZ-GALARZA v. I.N.S.

No. 94-70683.

99 F.3d 954 (1996)

Mercedes Lina LOPEZ-GALARZA; Raul Jose Hernandez-Lopez, Petitioners, v. IMMIGRATION AND NATURALIZATION SERVICE, Respondent.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Decided November 8, 1996.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Charles E. Nichol, San Francisco, CA, for petitioners.

Francesco Isgro, Office of Immigration Litigation, United States Department of Justice, Washington, DC, for respondent.

Before: BEEZER and HAWKINS, Circuit Judges, and ZILLY, District Judge.


Opinion by Judge MICHAEL DALY HAWKINS; Concurrence by Judge BEEZER.

MICHAEL DALY HAWKINS, Circuit Judge:

Mercedes Lina Lopez-Galarza and her son, Raul Jose Hernandez-Lopez, petition for review of the final order of deportation of the Board of Immigration Appeals ("the BIA"). We have jurisdiction pursuant to 8 U.S.C. § 1105a(a), and we grant the petition. We hold that Lopez-Galarza has demonstrated past persecution sufficient to establish eligibility for...

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