Ilir Hoxhallari v. Alberto Gonzales, Attorney General

How courts have described this case

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• concluding that alien’s fear of future persecution based on his affiliation with the DP was not well-founded in light of the “fundamental change in the political structure and government of Albania”
• holding that the agency need not enter specific findings regarding changed country conditions where “changed conditions evidently prevail in a country that is the subject of an appreciable proportion of asylum claims,” such as Albania
• noting that the BIA “may always exercise independent discretion to take judicial notice of any further changes in a country’s politics” (emphasis added)
• noting that while petitioner “may have a subjective fear of future persecution based on his Democratic Party affiliation ... the IJ’s perfunctory finding of changed conditions in Albania is adequate.”
• affirming the agency’s finding that an applicant was ineligible for asylum or withholding of removal as a result of material political changes in Albania
• upholding the denial of humanitarian asylum to a supporter of the Democratic Party in Albania who had been beaten and harassed on six occasions

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).