96 Cal. Daily Op. Serv. 5186, 96 Daily Journal D.A.R. 8385 Safi Mosa v. Richard K. Rogers, District Director, Immigration and Naturalization Service, Los Angeles Immigration and Naturalization Service

89 F.3d 601 96 Cal. Daily Op. Serv. 5186 , 96 Daily Journal D.A.R. 8385 Safi MOSA, Petitioner-Appellant, v. Richard K. ROGERS, District Director, Immigration and Naturalization Service, Los Angeles; Immigration and Naturalization Service, Respondents-Appellees. No. 95-56342. United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit. Argued and Submitted June 4, 1996. Decided July 12, 1996. Donald Ungar, Simmons, Ungar, Helbush, Steinberg & Bright, San Francisco, California, for petitioner-appellant. John B. Bartos, Assistant United States Attorney, Los Angeles, California, for respondents-appellees. Appeal from the United States District Court for the Central District of California; Harry L. Hupp, District Judge, Presiding, No. CV-95-01531-HLH. Before: FLETCHER, BEEZER and KLEINFELD, Circuit Judges. BEEZER, Circuit Judge: 1 Safi Mosa, a native and citizen of Afghanistan, appeals the district court's denial of his petition for a writ of habeas corpus challenging the Board of Immigration Appeals' ("BIA") dismissal of his appeal from an Immigration Judge's ("IJ") decision finding him excludable as charged and denying his applications for asylum and withholding of deportation. Mosa contends…