Meguenine v. Immigration & Naturalization Service

How courts have described this case

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

• reviewing BIA's determination that alien was ineligible for asylum and withholding of deportation under \substantial evidence\ standard
• approving a social group definition that requires “some immutable trait (such as an ethnic group) or a mutable trait which a mem- ber of that group should not, in good conscience, be required to change (such as a religious adherent’s beliefs)”
• “[T]he Board could reject [the applicant’s] fears of specific harm on this record as insufficiently severe and particular to support eligibility for asylum.... ”
• “Both sides have acted with considerable brutality toward the civilian population.”
• “[I]t is the law that general fears (even ‘well-founded’ ones

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