[NOT FOR PUBLICATION NOT TO BE CITED AS PRECEDENT] United States Court of Appeals For the First Circuit

No. 98-1203

JOSE AMILCAR CLAVEL-VASQUEZ,

Petitioner,

v.

IMMIGRATION AND NATURALIZATION SERVICE,

Respondent.

PETITION FOR REVIEW OF AN ORDER OF THE BOARD OF IMMIGRATION APPEALS

Before

Lipez, Circuit Judge, Coffin and Campbell, Senior Circuit Judge.

Alan M. Tow with whom Linda A. Cristello was on brief for petitioner. Joseph F. Ciolino, Attorney, Office of Immigration Litigation, with whom Frank W. Hunger, Assistant Attorney General, and Carl H. McIntyre, Jr., Senior Litigation Counsel, were on brief for respondent.

October 26, 1998

Per curiam. Petitioner Clavel-Vasquez seeks reversal of an order of deportation issued by the Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA). We may reverse the BIA's determination that petitioner is deportable only if he can demonstrate that the evidence he presented was "so compelling that no reasonable factfinder could fail to find" that he was eligible for asylum or withholding of deportation. INS v. Elias-Zacarias,

(1992); seealso

at 481 n.1; Civil v. INS,

(lst Cir. 1998); Ravindran v. INS,

(lst Cir. 1992). Petitioner has not met this burden. The record simply does not present a sufficiently compelling nexus between petitioner's fear of persecution and any political opinion. Indeed, having carefully reviewed the record and relevant law, we find ourselves in full agreement with the BIA's decision, which in turn relied upon the reasons stated by the Immigration Judge. We see no need to repeat here their thoughtful discussions. See Chen v. INS,

(lst Cir. 1996) ("[I]f a reviewing tribunal decides that the facts and evaluative judgments prescinding from them have been adequately confronted and correctly resolved by a trial judge or hearing officer, then the tribunal is free simply to adopt those findings" so long as the opinion or order reflects individualized attention to the case.). The petition for review is denied and dismissed.