Vicente Osorio v. Immigration and Naturalization Service, Lawyers Committee for Human Rights, Amicus Curiae

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• concluding that union activity was properly viewed as political because effort to legalize strikes by municipal workers could be perceived by government as threat to its authority
• ruling that the BIA erred by concluding that an applicant’s labor dispute with his government was economic and non-political without “examin[ing][ ]either the political dimension of th[e] dispute []or its political context”
• holding that ʺunion activities [can] imply a political opinion,ʺ and not merely economic position
• concluding \that union leaders like Osorio are at grave risk of persecution by Guatemalan authorities\
• ruling that the BIA erred by concluding 10 that an applicant’s labor dispute with his government was 11 economic and non-political without “examin[ing] []either the 12 political dimension of th[e] dispute []or its political 13 context”
• finding that the Board’s reasoning would result in Solzhenitzn’s dis- pute with the Soviet Union being characterized as literary rather than politi- cal

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