Legal Opinion
Ethel Harmon v. Eric Holder, Jr.
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Decided July 10, 2014No. 12-3268, 12-4173PublishedCited by 37 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
STRANCH, Circuit Judge.
Ethel Harmon, an adult who entered the United States as an unaccompanied alien child in 1994, was denied asylum, withholding of removal, and protection under the Convention Against Torture. Harmon argues that the Immigration Judge did not have jurisdiction over her asylum • claim, that the William Wilberforce Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act (TVPRA) permanently exempts former unaccompanied alien children from the one-year filing deadline for asylum applications, and that the BIA erred by denying her claims on the merits. For the reasons that…
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