Legal Opinion
Mohamed Abdille v. John Ashcroft, Attorney General of the United States
Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
Decided March 7, 2001No. 00-1659PublishedCited by 553 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
BECKER, Chief Judge.
Mohamed Jama Abdille, a Somali native, petitions for a review of a Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA or Board) decision that: (1) denied him asylum from Somalia on the ground that he had firmly resettled in South Africa; and (2) denied him asylum from South Africa on the ground that he failed to establish past persecution or a well-founded fear of persecution in that country. Abdille’s Petition for Review re quires us to interpret for the first time the meaning of the “firm resettlement” bar to asylum now codified in the Immigration and Nationality Act…
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