Legal Opinion
Lulseged Gebrehiwot v. John Ashcroft, Attorney General
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided June 29, 2004No. 03-2225PublishedCited by 20 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MAGILL, Circuit Judge.
Lulseged Gebrehiwot petitions for review of an order of the Board of Immigration Appeals (“BIA”) affirming without opinion an immigration judge’s (“U”) denial of his application for asylum and withholding of removal. We have jurisdiction pursuant to 8 U.S.C. § 1252, and we affirm the BIA’s order of removal.
Gebrehiwot is a citizen of Ethiopia. He is ethnically Amhara and was raised in a region of Ethiopia consisting primarily of ethnic Oromos and Somalis. Gebrehiwot first came to the United States in 1981; he completed a master’s degree in Agronomy at the University of…
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