Legal Opinion
Haifa Saleh El Himri Musab El Himri v. John Ashcroft, Attorney General
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided August 24, 2004No. 03-71152PublishedCited by 134 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
HUG, Circuit Judge:
This case requires us to look carefully at the methods the government uses to select a country of removal. The petitioners in this case are stateless Palestinians who fled Kuwait, the country of their nativity, when Iraq invaded Kuwait in 1991. They have been living in the United States since that time and now seek asylum, withholding of removal, and protection under the Convention Against Torture. The government argues that Jordan, rather than Kuwait, should be used as the country of removal because the petitioners hold Jordanian travel documents. The Immigration Judge…
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