Valli Kandiah Ravindran v. Immigration and Naturalization Service

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• declining to credit alien’s professed fear of being singled out for persecution in the absence of any evidence that authorities knew about his political activities
• distinguishing between substantive constitutional challenges to statutes and defects in evidentiary rulings in individual hearing
• \Issues not raised before the Board may not be raised for the first time upon judicial review of the Board's decisions.\
• imprisonment of petitioner by government for three days, search of family home, the witnessing by petitioner of random acts of violence by the majority ethnic group and persecution of petitioner's uncle were insufficient to establish refugee status
• imprisonment of petitioner by government for three days, search of family home, the witnessing by petitioner of random acts of violence by the majority ethnic group and persecution of petitioner's uncle were insufficient to establish refugee status
• “[Cjlaims of a denial of due process may be exempt from [exhaustion] where they are of the kind the BIA could not adjudicate because of their predominantly constitutional character. The BIA is without jurisdiction to adjudicate purely constitutional issues.”

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