Legal Opinion
Passaro Frango v. Alberto R. Gonzales, Attorney General of the United States
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided February 8, 2006No. 04-2663PublishedCited by 36 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ARNOLD, Circuit Judge.
Passaro Frango petitions for review of a Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA) order upholding a decision of an immigration judge that Mr. Frango’s asylum petition was frivolous. Because Mr. Frango did not raise his current arguments before the BIA, we deny his petition for review.
I
In his application for asylum, Mr. Fran-go, a native of Mauritania, stated that he had been a member of a group that he called the FNLM. He contended that because of this membership he had suffered bodily harm and feared further retribution if forced to return to Mauritania. The IJ found that Mr.…
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