Legal Opinion
Banat v. Holder
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided March 6, 2009No. 08-1298PublishedCited by 22 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
HANSEN, Circuit Judge.
Bassel Banat petitions for review of the Board of Immigration Appeals’ (BIA) order denying him asylum, arguing that his due process rights were violated when the Immigration Judge (IJ) based his adverse credibility determination on a State Department investigation report that Banat claims was inherently unreliable. We agree that the report was unreliable, and we grant the petition.
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Bassel Banat is a Palestinian refugee who was born and lived most of his life in Beirut, Lebanon. He finished college in Beirut and visited his brother, a United States citizen, in Minnesota…
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