{"id":12270,"date":"2018-06-11T20:20:40","date_gmt":"2018-06-12T01:20:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/?p=12270"},"modified":"2018-06-11T20:21:06","modified_gmt":"2018-06-12T01:21:06","slug":"asylum-burden-of-proof","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/2018\/06\/11\/asylum-burden-of-proof\/","title":{"rendered":"Asylum &#8211; burden of proof"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>8 USC 1158<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;(B) Burden of proof<\/p>\n<p>(<strong>i) In general<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>The burden of proof is on the applicant to establish that the applicant is a refugee, within the meaning of section 1101(a)(42)(A) of this title. To establish that the applicant is a refugee within the meaning of such section, the applicant must establish that race, religion, nationality, membership in a particular social group, or political opinion was or will be at least one central reason for persecuting the applicant.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.law.cornell.edu\/uscode\/text\/8\/1158\">Here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>8 USC 1158 &#8220;(B) Burden of proof (i) In general The burden of proof is on the applicant to establish that the applicant is a refugee, within the meaning of section 1101(a)(42)(A) of this title. To establish that the applicant is a refugee within the meaning of such section, the applicant must establish that race, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12270"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12270"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12270\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12275,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12270\/revisions\/12275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}