Legal Opinion
Abazaj v. Attorney General of the United States
Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
Decided September 1, 2011No. 10-4642Published
1Opinion of the Court
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2Per curiam
Ali Abazaj petitions for review of a Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA) decision dismissing his appeal. For the following reasons, we will deny the petition for review.
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Abazaj, an ethnic Albanian and Muslim who describes himself as “a native of the former Yugoslavia,” entered the United States without inspection in May of 2007, and was placed into expedited removal proceedings. Abazaj did not contest his removability. Soon thereafter, he applied for asylum, withholding of removal, and protection under the United Nations’ Convention Against Torture (CAT), and was found to have a…
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