Legal Opinion
Tony Esenwah v. John D. Ashcroft, Attorney General of the United States
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided August 5, 2004No. 03-1785PublishedCited by 40 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BOWMAN, Circuit Judge.
Tony Esenwah, a native and citizen of Nigeria, appeals from a Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA) order denying his motion for reconsideration of the BIA decision affirming the order of an Immigration Judge (IJ) denying Esenwah’s claim for asylum and ordering him removed from the United States. We affirm the denial of his motion for reconsideration.
Esenwah, a member of the Ibo tribe and a Christian, was born in Bida, Nigeria, where Christians are a minority. Esen-wah lived in Bida until 1970, when he was sixteen years old. At that point, tragedy struck: government…
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