Legal Opinion
Samuel Kwasi Asere v. Alberto R. Gonzales, United States Attorney General
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided March 2, 2006No. 05-2215PublishedCited by 30 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
CUDAHY, Circuit Judge.
This is a disappointing case in which the efforts of this Court to go beneath the surface of things have been frustrated. Petitioner Samuel Kwasi Asere, a native and citizen of Ghana, has appealed a Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA) decision denying him asylum and ordering him returned to Ghana. Asere fled Ghana after rejecting his family’s plea to be a priest of their fetish religion and becoming an adherent of Christianity. Asere was originally granted asylum by an immigration judge (IJ), and this decision was upheld by the BIA. However, after the government filed a…
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