Blanca Rosa Echeverria-Hernandez v. U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service

Echeverria-Hernandez petitions for review of the decision of the Board of Immigration Appeals (Board) denying her request for asylum and withholding of depor tation. The Board had jurisdiction pursuant to 8 C.F.R. §§ 3.1 (b)(2), 242.21 (1990). We have jurisdiction over this timely filed petition pursuant to 8 U.S.C. § 1105a. We deny the petition.

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Echeverria-Hernandez is a native and citizen of El Salvador. She last entered the United States on January 29, 1985, and, on June 30, 1985, she was served with ah order to show cause, alleging her deporta-bility. One month later, she appeared at a deportation hearing with counsel, refused to answer most questions regarding her deportability, but admitted she was not a citizen or national of the United States. The immigration judge denied her application for asylum and withholding of deportation. Echeverria-Hernandez timely appealed to the Board, which dismissed the- appeal.

Echeverria-Hernandez is not a member of any political organization. She has not served in either the armed forces or its armed opposition. She is politically neutral. Echeverria-Hernandez testified that in 1979, her cousin, who was a guerrilla, was killed by…