Wakkary v. Holder

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• concluding that threats and beating by native Indonesians, without more, did not cumulatively amount to past persecution
• holding that widespread discrimination was insufficient to show pattern and practice of persecution even where there were some incidents of persecution
• ruling that petitioner’s past experiences, including a mugging at knifepoint and two beatings, considered cumulatively, did not compel a finding of past persecution
• holding that “widespread” discrimination, without more, was insufficient to show a “pattern or practice” of persecution
• holding that evidence of widespread discrimination against a particular ethnic group did not compel the conclusion that there was a pattern or practice of persecution
• concluding that petitioner’s beating, robbery, and confrontation with a threatening mob did not rise to the level of persecution

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