Manuel Diaz Arteaga v. Immigration and Naturalization Service

How courts have described this case

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• holding that a one-time threat with no physical violence amounted to a specific threat of persecution
• holding that evidence of state action is not necessarily required in order to establish persecution, or a well-founded fear thereof,when the government is unable or unwilling to control the acts of private groups
• analyzing eligibility for asylum under the assumption that guerillas were not controlled by the government
• remanding for the BIA to consider whether the petitioner established a well-founded fear of persecution by guerillas that the El Salvadoran government could not control
• analyzing eligibility for asylum under the assumption that guerillas were not controlled by the government
• remanding for the BIA to consider whether the petitioner established a well-founded fear of persecution by guerillas that the El Salvadoran government could not control

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