Ravi Shankar Mishra v. Immigration & Naturalization Service

21 F.3d 1114 NOTICE: Ninth Circuit Rule 36-3 provides that dispositions other than opinions or orders designated for publication are not precedential and should not be cited except when relevant under the doctrines of law of the case, res judicata, or collateral estoppel. Ravi Shankar MISHRA, Petitioner, v. IMMIGRATION & NATURALIZATION SERVICE, Respondent. No. 92-070224. United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit. Argued and Submitted Oct. 7, 1993. Decided April 14, 1994. Before: TANG, TROTT, and FERNANDEZ, Circuit Judges. 1 MEMORANDUM * 2 Ravi Shankar Mishra, an ethnic Indian citizen of Fiji, petitions for review of the decision of the Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA) upholding the Immigration Judge's (IJ) denial of Mishra's petition for asylum and withholding of deportation, and his request for voluntary departure. We deny the petition for review. I. A. 3 Mishra introduced evidence that in 1987 a military coup headed by ethnic Fijian Lt. Colonel Rabuka seized power from the civilian government in Fiji. Ethnic Indians thereafter experienced a variety of harassment and discrimination. 4 Specifically, Mishra testified that ethnic Fijian mobs threw stones at his home four…