Legal Opinion
Mamadou Diallo v. John D. Ashcroft
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided August 26, 2004No. 03-1876PublishedCited by 78 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ILANA DIAMOND ROVNER, Circuit Judge.
Mamadou Diallo, a native citizen of Mauritania, requested that the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) 1 grant him asylum. The Agency refused, reasoning that Diallo had not been persecuted in Mauritania, did not have a well-founded fear of future persecution there, and had firmly resettled in Senegal prior to his arrival in the United States. Because the Agency (1) ignored its own regulations regarding the proper factors to consider in a firm resettlement analysis, (2) failed to make a credibility determination, and (3) failed to support its…
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