Faddoul v. Immigration & Naturalization Service

How courts have described this case

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• holding that “stateless individuals must demonstrate the same well-founded fear of persecution as those with nationalities”
• holding that “stateless individuals must demonstrate the same well-founded fear of persecution as those with nationalities”
• explaining that the “clear probability” of persecution necessary for withholding of removal represents “a higher objective likelihood of persecution than the ‘well-founded fear’ standard”
• requiring a connection between the feared persecution and the alien’s race, religion, nationality, or other qualifying characteristic
• \The decision to bestow or deny citizenship is deeply-rooted in national sovereignty and must be left to the individual nation's discretion.\
• “The decision to bestow or deny citizenship is deeply-rooted in national sovereignty and must be left to the individual nation’s discretion.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).