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CASTANEDA-HERNANDEZ v. I.N.S.

No. 86-3080.

826 F.2d 1526 (1987)

Edmundo Omar CASTANEDA-HERNANDEZ, Petitioner, v. IMMIGRATION AND NATURALIZATION SERVICE, Respondent.

United States Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit.

Decided August 21, 1987.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Fritz M. Vammen, Quiggle and Thompson, Little Rock, Ark., for Castaneda-Hernandez.

David V. Bernal, Office of Immigration Litigation, Civ. Div., Dept. of Justice, Washington, D.C., Richard Evans, Alison Drucker, Nicholas J. Pantel, Asst. U.S. Atty., Cincinnati, Ohio, for INS.

Before MERRITT and WELLFORD, Circuit Judges, and EDWARDS, Senior Circuit Judge.

MERRITT, Circuit Judge.

In this case arising under § 208(a) of the Immigration and Naturalization Act, 8 U.S.C. § 1158(a)(1982),1 the main question presented is whether the Board of Immigration Appeals correctly determined that petitioner was not eligible for asylum.

I.

Petitioner is a 24 year-old native and citizen of El Salvador. He entered the United States on or about April 4, 1982 near Del Rio, Texas. On...

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