Political Asylum

In a sharply worded opinion, the First Circuit vacated and remanded rulings by an immigration judge and the Board of Immigration Appeals that a Dominican political activist who was beaten, threatened with death, and whose home was invaded twice does not deserve asylum because this “did not rise above the level of harassment (and) unpleasantness.”

BOSTON — In a sharply worded opinion, the First Circuit vacated and remanded rulings by an immigration judge and the Board of Immigration Appeals that a Dominican political activist who was beaten, threatened with death, and whose home was invaded twice does not deserve asylum because this “did not rise above the level of harassment (and) unpleasantness.”

Categories / Appeals, Civil Rights, Government, Law

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