Mermelstein v. City of New York

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• requiring the 17 government to show there is an area for safe relocation, but 18 concluding burden can be met by showing that conditions 19 outside of the home region “were not such that the applicant 20 would have a well-founded fear”
• the proposed location “must present circumstances that are substantially better than those giving rise to a well-founded fear of persecution on the basis of the original claim” (emphasis added)

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