Legal Opinion
Niang v. Ashcroft
Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit
Decided September 8, 2005No. 04-9547PublishedCited by 93 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
HARTZ, Circuit Judge.
Petitioner Awa Niang is a victim of female genital mutilation (FGM). She faces removal from this country because she overstayed her nonimmigrant visa, was working in the United States without permission of the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS), 1 and had falsely represented herself as a citizen to obtain employment. To avoid being returned to her native Senegal, she sought asylum and restriction on removal on the ground that she had suffered past persecution— FGM — in Senegal. She also sought relief under the Convention Against Torture (CAT), 2 on the ground…
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