Rosario Cabanatan Tarubac v. Immigration and Naturalization Service

How courts have described this case

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

• holding the presence of a nonpolitical motive for persecution does not, without more, prove the absence of a political motive
• “An alternative holding is only adequate to support the result if it is separate from and independent of any other basis for the decision.” (emphasis added)
• “In this case, where Tarubac not only resisted the NPA’s demands but expressed political reasons for her resistance, the NPA’s subsequent persecution of her is best understood as being on account of her political opinion.”
• discussing required causal connection between persecution and petitioner’s political opinion
• applyingBorja in another mixed-motive political asylum case

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).