Opinion ID: 455831
Heading Depth: 2
Heading Rank: 1

Heading: Cardoza-Fonseca

Text: 2 Petitioner Luz Marina Cardoza-Fonseca is a citizen of Nicaragua who entered this country as a non-immigrant visitor on June 25, 1979. She remained beyond her authorized stay and the INS initiated deportation proceedings. At her deportation hearing on December 14, 1981, Cardoza-Fonseca conceded that she was otherwise deportable and applied for asylum under section 208(a) of the Refugee Act of 1980, 8 U.S.C. Sec. 1158(a) (1982), and for a prohibition against deportation under section 243(h) of the Immigration and Nationality Act, 8 U.S.C. Sec. 1253(h) (1982). 1 The immigration judge applied only a clear probability of persecution standard and determined that Cardoza-Fonseca was not entitled to relief from deportation. The BIA affirmed, stating that no matter what burden of proof Cardoza-Fonseca faced, whether  'clear probability,' 'good reason' or 'realistic likelihood,'  all of which the Board thought to be identical, she failed to show that she would suffer persecution (emphasis added). The Board also reasoned that her claim failed because she had not introduced any objective evidence to demonstrate that she will be subject to persecution (emphasis added). Cardoza-Fonseca appeals only from the denial of her claim for relief under section 208(a).