Legal Opinion
Chikkeur v. Mukasey
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided January 31, 2008No. 05-2893, 07-1798PublishedCited by 16 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
LYNCH, Circuit Judge.
Nasreddine Chikkeur and his wife, Baghdadia Meguenine, are both natives and citizens of Algeria. The Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA) affirmed without opinion the decision of an Immigration Judge (IJ) denying petitioners’ application for asylum, withholding of removal, and relief under the Convention Against Torture (CAT). The BIA denied a later petition to reopen. Both denials are the subject of this petition for review. 1
Petitioners’ asylum application relies on an incident of extortion that occurred in May 1996, while Chikkeur operated a successful retail business in…
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