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GAFOOR v. I.N.S.

No. 98-71201.

231 F.3d 645 (2000)

Abdul GAFOOR; Bibi Nurun Nisha; Faymeeza Nisha; Farzana Nisha; Petitioners, v. IMMIGRATION AND NATURALIZATION SERVICE, Respondent.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Filed November 3, 2000.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jorge Rodriguez-Choi (argued) and Suzanne B. Friedman, San Francisco, California, for the petitioners.

Alice E. Loughran, Office of Immigration Litigation, U.S. Department of Justice, Washington, D.C., for the respondent.

Before: Diarmuid F. O'SCANNLAIN, Michael Daly HAWKINS, and Sidney R. THOMAS, Circuit Judges.

Argued and Submitted December 9, 1999 — San Francisco, California

Opinion by Judge HAWKINS; Dissent by Judge O'SCANNLAIN.

MICHAEL DALY HAWKINS, Circuit Judge:

This is the latest in a long line of immigration cases involving claims of racial and political persecution against people of Indian descent living on the South Pacific island of Fiji. Like those asylum-seekers before him, Abdul Gafoor claims he was persecuted by ethnic Fijians on account...

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