Jairo J. Vega-Garcia v. Immigration and Naturalization Service

83 F.3d 430 NOTICE: Ninth Circuit Rule 36-3 provides that dispositions other than opinions or orders designated for publication are not precedential and should not be cited except when relevant under the doctrines of law of the case, res judicata, or collateral estoppel. Jairo J. VEGA-GARCIA, Petitioner, v. IMMIGRATION AND NATURALIZATION SERVICE, Respondent. No. 94-70822. United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit. Submitted April 12, 1996. * Decided April 23, 1996. 1 Before: BROWNING and NOONAN, Circuit Judges, and MERHIGE, ** Senior District Judge. 2 MEMORANDUM *** 3 * The denial of Vega's asylum application was supported by substantial evidence. To be eligible for asylum, Vega was required to demonstrate a "well-founded fear of persecution on account of race, religion, nationality, membership in a particular social group, or political opinion." See 8 U.S.C. §§ 1158 (a), 1101(a)(42)(A). 4 Vega, an activist with the anti-Sandinista Social Christian Party and the Catholic Church, claims the Sandinistas persecuted him by cutting his food rations, expelling him from a Sandinista-run public school, intimidating him through prison tours while he was in the military, and…