Legal Opinion
Thomas Mengistu v. John Ashcroft, Attorney General of the United States
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided January 22, 2004No. 02-3419PublishedCited by 42 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
POSNER, Circuit Judge.
Thomas Mengistu was born in 1968 in Addis Ababa, the capital of Ethiopia. Ethnically, however, he is Eritrean. He came to the United States from Ethiopia in 1989 on a student visa, which expired in 1991. He did not leave the country, and in 1992 the immigration service began deportation proceedings against him. He did not deny that he was deportable, but he applied for asylum on the ground that he had been persecuted by the Ethiopian government for engaging in religious activity and resisting the draft and would be persecuted again if he were sent back to Ethiopia.…
2Cases cited18 opinions
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3Cited by42 opinions
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