Gonzalez-Hernandez v. Ashcroft

336 F.3d 995 Bernardo Antonio GONZALEZ-HERNANDEZ; Hilda Vivian Gonzalez; Heidi Argentina Gonzalez-Morales; Vilma Lissette Gonzalez-Morales; Mayra Alejandra Gonzaleza-Morales, Petitioners, v. John ASHCROFT, Attorney General, Respondent. No. 02-7218. United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit. Argued and Submitted June 3, 2003. Filed July 18, 2003. Susan E. Hill, Los Angeles, CA, for the petitioners. Norah Ascoli Schwarz, Jamie Dowd, U.S. Department of Justice, Civil Division, Office of Immigration Litigation, Washington, DC, for the respondent. On Petition for Review of an Order of the Board of Immigration Appeals. INS Nos. Adc-rja-cmn, Afj-vyg-inn, Aev-xxu-uzq, Avd-mqw-rjg, Ala-fsq-lbp. Before: THOMPSON, TROTT, and TALLMAN, Circuit Judges. OPINION TALLMAN, Circuit Judge: 1 In this petition for review, we are once again asked to decide whether the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) rebutted the presumption of future persecution through the use of a State Department country report, thereby defeating the petitioners' claims of asylum. Because the country report in this case indicates that only high-level political figures are now subject to persecution on account of…