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Jose Rodolfo PENA, Petitioner, v. UNITED STATES of America; Immigration and Naturalization Service, Respondents.
    No. 00-70623. I & NS No. [ AXX-XXX-XXX ].
    United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.
    Submitted Feb. 13, 2002.
    
    Decided March 18, 2002.
    Before D.W. NELSON, NOONAN, and HAWKINS, Circuit Judges.
    
      
       This panel unanimously finds this case suitable for decision without oral argument. See Fed. R.App. P. 34(a)(2).
    
   MEMORANDUM

Even if we were to find the determination of the Bureau of Immigration Appeals concerning petitioner’s credibility to be inadequate, Pena’s petition must be denied because the INS offered a preponderance of evidence attesting that conditions in El Salvador “have changed to such an extent that the applicant no longer has a well-founded fear of being persecuted if he ... were to return.” Lal v. INS, 255 F.3d 998, 1002 (9th Cir.2001).

PETITION DENIED. 
      
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