Legal Opinion
El Moraghy v. Ashcroft
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided June 12, 2003No. 02-2606PublishedCited by 89 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
LYNCH, Circuit Judge.
This case causes us to review a denial of an application for asylum by a Coptic Christian Egyptian national based on grounds of religious persecution. Although the Board of Immigration Appeals (“BIA”) affirmed the denial of asylum using its relatively new summary affirmance procedure, it should not have done so. Basic flaws in the methodology and reasoning used by the Immigration Judge (“IJ”) undercut his reasoning and so we remand. We reject the notion that a State Department country condition report must specifically name a petitioner or his family members to be useful…
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