Deloso v. Ashcroft’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

3 federal appellate ·

Most-quoted passages

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1. “First, the applicant can show past persecution on account of a protected ground. Once past persecution is demonstrated, then fear of future persecution is presumed, and the burden shifts to the government to show, by a preponderance of the evidence, that “there has been a fundamental change in circumstances such that the applicant no longer has a well-founded fear of persecution,” or “[t]he applicant could avoid future persecution by relocating to another part of the applicant’s country.” An applicant may also qualify for asylum by actually showing a well-founded fear of future persecution, again on account of a protected ground.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Mansour v. Ashcroft

2. “[A]n applicant need only produce evidence from which it is reasonable to believe that the harm was motivated, at least in part, by a protected ground.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Ochoa v. Gonzales