Legal Opinion
Patience Njowe Esaka v. John Ashcroft, Attorney General of the United States
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided February 16, 2005No. 04-1155PublishedCited by 28 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SMITH, Circuit Judge.
Patience Njowe Esaka seeks review of an order by the Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA) affirming an Immigration Judge’s (IJ) denial of her application for asylum, withholding of removal, and protection under the Convention Against Torture. We deny the petition for review.
I. Background
Patience Njowe Esaka was born on October 1, 1969, in Muyuka Cameroon. In Cameroon, people fall within one of two linguistic populations: English speaking persons referred to as Anglophones, and French speaking persons referred to as Francophones. Esaka and her family are Anglophones. Esaka…
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