Legal Opinion
Zebenework Haile Georgis v. John Ashcroft, United States Attorney General
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided May 20, 2003No. 02-2786PublishedCited by 218 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
FLAUM, Chief Judge.
Petitioner Zebenework Haile Georgis seeks review of a final order of the Board of Immigration Appeals (“BIA”) denying her petitions for asylum and withholding of deportation and ordering her removal from the United States to Ethiopia, where she is a citizen. An Immigration Judge (“IJ”) determined that Georgis’s claims of racial and political opinion discrimination in Ethi opia did not merit asylum because they were not “internally consistent” and “inherently persuasive.” Georgis appealed and the BIA affirmed the IJ’s decision without opinion pursuant to 8 C.F.R. §…
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