LORISME v. I.N.S.

No. 96-5451 Non-Argument Calendar.

129 F.3d 1441 (1997)

Cereste LORISME, Petitioner, v. IMMIGRATION AND NATURALIZATION SERVICE, Respondent.

United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit.

December 2, 1997.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Cereste Lorisme, Homestead, FL, pro se.

F. Franklin Amanat, Philemina McNeill Jones, Margaret Perry, Teresa Wallbaum, U.S. Dept. of Justice, OIL, Washington, DC, for Respondent.

Before HATCHETT, Chief Judge, and BIRCH and CARNES, Circuit Judges.


HATCHETT, Chief Judge:

Before the court is a petition for review of a decision of the Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA) that upheld an immigration judge's (IJ) order denying petitioner Cereste Lorisme's request for asylum and withholding of deportation under sections 208 and 243(h) of the Immigration and Naturalization Act (INA), 8 U.S.C. §§ 1158 & 1253(h). Because we find substantial evidence to support the BIA's decision, we deny Lorisme's petition...

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