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· 1/9/1997

Baljinder Singh SANGHA, Petitioner, v. IMMIGRATION AND NATURALIZATION SERVICE, Respondent

Citations

  • 103 F.3d 1482
  • 97 Daily Journal DAR 387
  • 97 Cal. Daily Op. Serv. 242
  • 1997 U.S. App. LEXIS 272

How courts have described this case

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  • holding that the petitioner had been persecuted by a terrorist group that the government of India could not control
  • holding that the petitioner had been persecuted by a terrorist group that the government of India could not control
  • holding that applicant failed to establish imputed political opinion where he presented no evidence that an anti-governmental guerilla group imputed his father’s political beliefs to him
  • deciding that it was as likely the persecutor sought forcibly to recruit the applicant for non-political reasons as it was for the persecutor forcibly to recruit the applicant for his political opinion
  • holding that applicant may establish eligibility for asylum on basis of imputed political opinion
  • holding that recruitment of petitioner by a guerilla group may have had non-political justifications

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Judges: Goodwin, Wallace, Rymer

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