Genaro Hermino Rodriguez-Rivera v. U.S. Department of Immigration and Naturalization

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• holding that evidence that the petitioner's family remains unpersecuted in his native country is relevant in assessing a request for asylum or withholding of deportation and undercuts a claim of well-founded fear of persecution
• explaining that a government-issued passport undercuts an alien's claim of a well-founded fear of persecution
• explaining that substantial evidence supporting denial of asylum included fact that petitioner lived undisturbed for two months after guerrilla threat
• finding it “significant” that applicant continued to live undisturbed for three months after threat
• addressing only whether alien established well-founded fear of persecution from -11- non-government entity, and, because alien failed to do so, not reaching issue of control
• upholding a denial of asylum where an alien's family continued to live \unmolested\ in the alien's native land

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