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032818P.pdf 11/10/2004 Guerrero de Brenner v. Ashcroft
U.S. Court of Appeals Case No: 03-2818
Agency
Petition for Review - Immigration. BIA erred in reversing the
Immigration Judge's ruling granting petitioners asylum; the
administrative record compels the conclusion that petitioners have
suffered persecution due at least in part to a statutory basis, namely,
imputed political opinion; in reaching its alternative finding that even if
persecution occurred due to a statutory basis, changed country conditions
in Peru removed any objectively reasonable fear of persecution, the BIA
failed to place the burden of proof on the INS (now Department of
Homeland Security) to show that changed country conditions overcame
the presumption of a well-founded fear of persecution; case remanded to
the BIA for reconsideration of the issue of changed country conditions.
[PUBLISHED] [Melloy, Author, with Loken, Chief Judge, and Heaney,
Circuit Judge]