Legal Opinion
Mensah Koffi Adekpe v. Alberto R. Gonzales
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided March 14, 2007No. 05-3951PublishedCited by 32 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
CUDAHY, Circuit Judge.
Mensah Koffi Adekpe petitions for review of a final order of the Board of Immigration Appeals requiring that he be removed to Togo. He argues that the Board, adopting the findings of the Immigration Judge, improperly disbelieved his story of political persecution at the hands of the Togolese government and failed to adequately discuss evidence corroborating his story. We grant the petition and remand the case to the Board.
Adekpe is a citizen of Togo. All agree that Togo is not a good place in which to hold political views adverse to those of the government; as Adekpe’s…
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