Mohamed Abdille v. John Ashcroft, Attorney General of the United States

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• concluding that party seeking to rely on foreign law bears burden of establishing its content
• holding that “ordinary criminal activity” and “generalized lawlessness and violence” does not rise to the level or persecution to establish eligibility for asylum
• concluding that party seeking to rely on foreign law bears burden of establishing its content
• holding that agency’s finding “must be upheld unless the evidence not only supports a contrary conclusion, but compels it”
• holding that “evidence of generalized lawlessness does not compel a conclusion that an alien has been subjected to persecution on account of ethnicity or religion”
• holding that “[m]ere generalized lawlessness and violence between diverse populations” will not support relief

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).