United States First Circuit

Petition for review of BIA denial of applications for asylum, withholding of removal and relief under the Convention Against Torture is denied for the asylum claim where the court lacks jurisdiction over factual matters, and the BIA's order is affirmed on the remaining claims where the applicant's claims of past and future persecution and torture were not credible.

Appellate Information

• Decided 07/13/2006
• Published 07/13/2006

Judges

• STAFFORD, District Judge., Before TORRUELLA and LIPEZ, Circuit Judges, and STAFFORD, Senior District Judge.

Court

• United States First Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Aleksander Milch, with whom Christophe & Associates, P.C., was on brief, for Petitioner.


• For Appellees:
  
• Anh-Thu P. Mai, with whom the Office of Immigration Litigation, U.S. Department of Justice, was on brief, for Respondent.