Legal Opinion
Joseph Awolesi and Ebenezer Awolesi v. John Ashcroft, Attorney General of the United States
Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
Decided August 15, 2003No. 02-2435PublishedCited by 41 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
BECKER, Circuit Judge.
This is a petition for review of an extremely terse (four sentence) order by the Board of Immigration Appeals (“BIA”), reversing the decision of the Immigration Judge (“IJ”) granting the applications for asylum of petitioners, Joseph Awolesi (“Awolesi”), and his son Ebenezer (whose claim is derivative of Joseph’s), Awolesi testified before the IJ that his brother, Matthew Awolesi (“Matthew”), a member of the pro-democracy party in Nigeria and an elected member of the local community council, was the target of ambush and assassination attempts by the…
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