In re: U.S.A. Dawgs, Inc.

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• applying Ninth Circuit law where alien's detention and hearings occurred in Fifth Circuit based on \the general policy of preventing forum shopping by the INS\ and fact that alien's only contact with Fifth Circuit was his detention there
• alien arrested in Reno, detained and subjected to administrative proceedings in Oak-dale, Louisiana, then transferred to detention facility in El Paso
• alien fears persecution on account of political opinion because El Salvador government views him as associated with guerrillas
• \[a]lthough the IJ expressed some concern about Maldonado's credibility\ the presumption was appropriate because \there [was] no clear indication that the IJ disbelieved the basic facts upon which we make our legal determination now.\
• \The BIA based its decision solely on the legal issues considered above.\
• neither the IJ nor the BIA made an adverse credibility finding

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