Alba Rocha-Contreras, Allen Richard Morales, Elias Morales v. United States Immigration and Naturalization Service

942 F.2d 793 NOTICE: Ninth Circuit Rule 36-3 provides that dispositions other than opinions or orders designated for publication are not precedential and should not be cited except when relevant under the doctrines of law of the case, res judicata, or collateral estoppel. Alba ROCHA-CONTRERAS, Allen Richard Morales, Elias Morales, Petitioners, v. UNITED STATES IMMIGRATION AND NATURALIZATION SERVICE, Respondent. No. 90-70652. United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit. Submitted Aug. 23, 1991. * Decided Aug. 28, 1991. Before JAMES R. BROWNING, FARRIS and WILLIAM A. NORRIS, Circuit Judges. 1 MEMORANDUM ** 2 Alba Rocha-Contreras, Alan Richard Morales, and Elias Morales, natives and citizens of Nicaragua, petition for review of the Board of Immigration Appeals ("BIA") decision upholding the immigration judge's ("IJ") denial of their requests for asylum and withholding of deportation under 8 U.S.C. §§ 1158 (a) and 1253(h). We have jurisdiction pursuant to 8 U.S.C. § 1105 (a). We deny the petition for review. 3 * Standard of Review 4 We review de novo the BIA's determinations involving questions of law. See Rodriguez-Rivera v. INS, 848 F.2d 998, 1001 (9th Cir.1988).…