Elizabeth Makonnen v. Immigration and Naturalization Service

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• holding that \to require a showing of persecution of all the members of the applicant's group represents an unreasonable reading of the `pattern or practice' language\
• holding that treatment of a member of an alien's immediate family who shares similar political views and similar political activities is relevant to establishing well-founded fear
• holding acts of persecution against immediate family member with similar political views and active in similar political activities is relevant to show well-founded fear of persecution
• stating that the term \pattern or practice\ means something on the order of organized systematic, or pervasive persecution, but requires less than the perse- cution of all members of a group
• defining a pattern and practice of discrimination as requiring “organized or systematic or pervasive persecution”
• defining a pattern and practice of discrimination as requiring \organized or systematic or pervasive persecution\

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