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KRATCHMAROV v. HESTON

No. 98-1958.

172 F.3d 551 (1999)

Petre I. KRATCHMAROV, Petitioner, v. Michael HESTON, District Director of the United States Immigration and Naturalization Service; Janet Reno, Attorney General of the United States, Respondents.

United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.

Decided March 30, 1999.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Dorothy J. Harper, St. Louis, Missouri, argued (John W. Thompson, on the brief), for Petitioner.

James A. Hunolt, Washington, DC, argued (Frank W. Hunger and David M. McConnell, on the brief), for Respondent.

Before BEAM and LOKEN, Circuit Judges, and BOGUE, District Judge.

BEAM, Circuit Judge.

Petre I. Kratchmarov, a citizen of Bulgaria, petitions for review of a decision of the Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA) denying his application for asylum under 8 U.S.C. § 1158(a) and refusing to withhold deportation under 8 U.S.C. § 1253(h). For the reasons discussed below, we affirm the decision of the BIA.2

I. BACKGROUND

Kratchmarov entered...

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