Ana Maria Urrutia-Ruiz Alfonso Juarez-Urrutia v. Immigration and Naturalization Service

85 F.3d 639 NOTICE: Ninth Circuit Rule 36-3 provides that dispositions other than opinions or orders designated for publication are not precedential and should not be cited except when relevant under the doctrines of law of the case, res judicata, or collateral estoppel. Ana Maria URRUTIA-RUIZ; Alfonso Juarez-Urrutia; Petitioners, v. IMMIGRATION AND NATURALIZATION SERVICE, Respondent. No. 94-70886. United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit. Submitted April 10, 1996. * Decided May 8, 1996. 1 Before: NORRIS and WIGGINS, Circuit Judges, and JONES, ** District Judge. 2 MEMORANDUM *** 3 Ana Maria Urrutia-Ruiz petitions for review of a decision of the Board of Immigration Appeals denying her application for asylum under 8 U.S.C. § 1158 (a) and withholding of deportation under 8 U.S.C. § 1253 (h). 4 The Board of Immigration Appeals denied her application on the ground that she had failed to establish that she had a well-founded fear of persecution by the Sandinistas if she returned to Nicaragua because the Sandinista Party no longer governs Nicaragua. It first found that she had not established past persecution. It further found that she had not established a well-founded…