Juan Octavio Sequeira-Salas v. Immigration & Naturalization Service

56 F.3d 73 NOTICE: Ninth Circuit Rule 36-3 provides that dispositions other than opinions or orders designated for publication are not precedential and should not be cited except when relevant under the doctrines of law of the case, res judicata, or collateral estoppel. Juan Octavio SEQUEIRA-SALAS, Petitioner, v. IMMIGRATION & NATURALIZATION SERVICE, Respondent. No. 93-70863. United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit. Argued and Submitted April 14, 1995. Decided May 11, 1995 Petition for Review of an Order of The Board of Immigration Appeals, BIA No. Aio-xcf-ymn. BIA VACATED Before: TANG, SCHROEDER, and TROTT, Circuit Judges. 1 MEMORANDUM * 2 Juan Octavio Sequeira-Salas, a native and citizen of Nicaragua, petitions for review of the Board of Immigration Appeals' (BIA) decision affirming the Immigration Judge's (IJ) denial of his application for asylum and withholding of deportation. We deny his petition. A. 3 The evidence established that Sequeira-Salas's family belonged to a party affiliated with the Somoza Government, which opposed the Sandinistas. The Sandinistas forced the closure of his father's business, and his father left the country in 1980. Sequeira-Salas left…