Romilus v. Ashcroft

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• holding that petitioner had failed to establish persecution on account of a statutorily protected ground because he did not furnish sufficient evidence of alleged persecutors' motive
• noting that applicants for withholding must satisfy a “more likely than not” standard (citation omitted)
• denying CAT relief when a military officer assaulted the petitioner because the two incidents of abuse “sprang from a personal dispute” and the -16- military officer could not, therefore, be “acting in an official capacity when he assaulted [the alien]”
• indicating there is no subjective component to a claim for relief under the CAT and that “[t]o establish a prima facie claim under the CAT, an applicant must offer specific objective evidence showing that he will be subject to [torture]” in proposed country of removal
• because the issue was not dispositive, we assumed without deciding that the group the petitioner was a member of was a political organization
• a well-founded fear of persecution requires that the applicant’s fear be both subjectively genuine and objectively reasonable

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