Fouad Youssef Hakim Mansour v. John Ashcroft, Attorney General, Soheir Gamil Shaker Ewada v. John Ashcroft, Attorney General

I concur in Parts I, II, III, and V of the majority’s opinion but dissent from Part IV and from the judgment of the court. I would grant the Petition for Review because, for the reasons explained more fully below, I believe that Petitioners have established that they were persecuted in the past on account of a protected ground and, as a result, áre presumptively entitled to asylum and withholding of removal.1 Alternatively, I would hold that Petitioners are eligible for asylum because they have established an independently well-founded *675fear that their United States citizen children will be…