Deloso

FOR PUBLICATION

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS

FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT

JESSIE AROMIN DELOSO,  No. 02-72317 Petitioner, Agency No. v. A70-778-153 JOHN ASHCROFT, Attorney General,  AMENDED Respondent. OPINION

DENYING

 REHEARING

On Petition for Review of an Order of the Board of Immigration Appeals

Argued and Submitted May 13, 2004—San Francisco, California

Opinion Filed August 2, 2004 Amended January 3, 2005

Before: Betty Binns Fletcher, Stephen S. Trott and Raymond C. Fisher, Circuit Judges.

Opinion by Judge Fisher

1 DELOSO v. ASHCROFT

COUNSEL

Lizbeth A. Galdamez and Michael P. Karr, Sacramento, Cali- fornia, for the petitioner.

Jeffrey J. Bernstein and John M. McAdams, Jr., United States Department of Justice, Office of Immigration Litigation, Washington, D.C., for the respondent.

Beth Werlin and Trina Realmuto, Washington, D.C., for amicus curiae American Immigration Law Foundation.

OPINION

FISHER, Circuit Judge:

Jessie Aromin Deloso, a native and citizen of the Philip- pines, petitions for review of the denial of his request for asy- lum and withholding of…