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· 11/19/1992

Jhonny A. Huaman-Cornelio v. Board of Immigration Appeals

Citations

  • 979 F.2d 995
  • 1992 U.S. App. LEXIS 30492
  • 1992 WL 336927

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

  • distinguishing a genuine fear based on unsupported hypotheses from evidence of a fear supported by con- crete facts showing that fear to be objectively reasonable
  • stating that the reasonable person test “has both subjective and objective elements”
  • “The BIA, not the IJ, wields ultimate authority over asylum decisions, subject only to the specific intervention of the Attorney General.”
  • contention that group in Peru might conceivably harm petitioner after labeling him a traitor is not sufficient to establish eligibility for asylum absent concrete evidence that group had so labeled petitioner.
  • final orders in deportation proceedings come from the BIA, the highest administrative tribunal, and, thus, the court of appeals reviews the findings and order of the BIA

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Judges: Wilkinson, Niemeyer, Luttig

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