GRAMATIKOV v. I.N.S.

No. 97-1453.

128 F.3d 619 (1997)

Miltcho GRAMATIKOV, Ivaylo Gramatikov and Vesselin Gramatikov, Petitioners, v. IMMIGRATION AND NATURALIZATION SERVICE, Respondent.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided November 3, 1997.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Stanley J. Horn (argued), Horn & Villasuso, Chicago, IL, for Petitioners.

Samuel Der-Yeghiayan, Immigration & Naturalization, Chicago, IL, Allen W. Hausman, David M. McConnell, Kristal A. Marlow, Department of Justice, Civil Division, Immigration Litigation, John C. Cunningham (argued), United States Department of Justice, Immigration Litigation, Washington, DC, for Respondent.

Before POSNER, Chief Judge, and ESCHBACH and COFFEY, Circuit Judges.


POSNER, Chief Judge.

A father and two sons, all illegal immigrants from Bulgaria, were denied asylum and have appealed. They claim to have been persecuted in Bulgaria because of their opposition to communism and to fear that if they return there they will again be persecuted because even though Bulgaria formally abandoned communism in 1989 along with the rest of the Soviet Union's European satellites, the "same people" are, according to the Gramatikovs, still in charge...

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