Lalith Maximus Rohan Tissera v. Immigration and Naturalization Service

33 F.3d 59 NOTICE: Ninth Circuit Rule 36-3 provides that dispositions other than opinions or orders designated for publication are not precedential and should not be cited except when relevant under the doctrines of law of the case, res judicata, or collateral estoppel. Lalith Maximus Rohan TISSERA, Petitioner, v. IMMIGRATION AND NATURALIZATION SERVICE, Respondent. No. 93-70242. United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit. Argued and Submitted June 10, 1994. Decided Aug. 15, 1994. Before: POOLE, BRUNETTI, and KLEINFELD, Circuit Judges. 1 MEMORANDUM * 2 The BIA had a substantial basis on the whole record for rejecting Tissera's claim of a well founded fear of government persecution. As the BIA said, this threat was entirely speculative. The government never gave Tissera any reason to believe that it might persecute him as a suspected Communist because he had gone to medical school in Cuba. Had the government focused any attention on that period of his life, it was as reasonable to suppose that its impression would be positive because of his assistance to the government in identifying JVP connections with the Palestine Liberation Organization and Libya. An objective fear of…