Makhoul v. Ashcroft

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• holding that the court of appeals is without jurisdiction to consider points not squarely raised before the BIA
• holding that alien who did not raise claim of past persecution before IJ was precluded from raising it on petition for judicial review
• concluding that petitioner's \diminutive political profile tends to make the petitioner's asserted fear of persecution less reasonable\ despite supporting documentation showing alleged persecutors \have targeted political dissidents\
• concluding that petitioner lacked a well-founded fear of persecution where he had never himself been arrested, detained or harmed by alleged persecutors and had only engaged in relatively anonymous political activities
• refusing to set aside the BIA’s conclusion that the petitioner had failed to show a reasonable fear of future prosecution based on the arrest of one of his compatriots
• first citing Ravindran v. INS, 976 F.2d 754, 761 (1st Cir. 1992); and then citing Alvarez-Flores v. INS, 909 F.2d 1, 8 (1st Cir. 1990)

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