Daniel
Daniel v. Immigration & Naturalization Service
Opinion
Lead Opinion
MEMORANDUM ***
Yousef and Shadia Daniel and their children petition for review of an order of the Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA) dismissing their appeal from a final order of deportation. We have jurisdiction under § 309(c)(4) of the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996 (“IIRIRA”), Pub.L. No. 104-208, 110 Stat. 3009 (Sept. 30, 1996), and § 106(a) of the Immigration and Naturalization Act (“INA”), 8 U.S.C. § 1105a(a), and deny the petition.
Petitioners are Christian Palestinians who fled from Lebanon to Jordan and then to Kuwait, where they lived until they fled to the United States in 1990. They contend that they have suffered persecution in every country in which they have lived. They allege that they suffered persecution in Kuwait by the Iraqis because they refused to cooperate with them, and they became afraid when they heard another Palestinian had been tortured when he refused to help. They also feared persecution based on Kuwait’s unwillingness to issue visas to returning Palestinians.
The BIA correctly evaluated petitioners’ persecution claims with respect to the country in which they last habitually resided, Kuwait, and rejected…