Genet Gebregziabher Desta Tekie Girmay Melles Fitsum Melles v. John D. Ashcroft, Attorney General

PETITION FOR REVIEW FROM THE DEPARTMENT OF IMMIGRATION & NATURALIZATION SERVICE (Nos. A70 627 942; A70 627 943; A70 627 944)

TACHA, Chief Circuit Judge.

I. Background

The Immigration Judge (“IJ”) denied petitioners asylum but withheld their deportation to Ethiopia. The Board of Immigration Appeals (“BIA”) later designated Canada as the alternate country of deportation in order to correct the IJ’s failure to designate an alternate country. Petitioners contend on appeal that they are entitled to asylum. In the alternative, they assert that, even if they were properly denied asylum, the BIA abused…