United States First Circuit

Petition for review of an order denying asylum, withholding of removal, and protection under the Convention Against Torture is dismissed in part and denied in part where: 1) there was no jurisdiction to consider the asylum application as the application did not present any colorable constitutional claims or questions of law; and 2) substantial evidence supported denying the application for withholding of removal and for protection under the CAT as the record did not support a claim that he would more likely than not be persecuted and tortured if he were to return to Syria.

Appellate Information

• Decided 07/14/2009
• Published 07/14/2009

Judges

• EBEL, Circuit Judge., Before LYNCH, Chief Judge, EBEL  and LIPEZ, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States First Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Ilana Etkin Greenstein, Jeremiah Friedman, Maureen O'Sullivan, Harvey Kaplan, and Jeanette Kain on brief for petitioner.


• For Appellees:
  
• Michael H. Hertz, Acting Assistant Attorney General, and Michelle Gorden Latour and Timothy G. Hayes, Office of Immigration Litigation, on brief for respondent.