Legal Opinion
Tangka v. Holder
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided March 26, 2015No. 14-2275PublishedCited by 1 opinion
1Opinion of the Court
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Grace Selfie Tangka, an Indonesian national, petitions for review of the denial of her application for asylum and withholding from removal based on her fear of persecution because of religion (Christianity) and race (Chinese ethnicity). Tangka’s application largely rested on a single incident — the kidnapping of her American-born, infant daughter from a shopping mall in Bogor, Indonesia while she was attending Christian worship services. The immigration judge denied the application because he found that Tangka did not present sufficient evidence to show a sufficient nexus between the…
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