United States Second Circuit

Petition for review of BIA's sustaining of DHS's appeal from IJ's grant of humanitarian asylum is denied where petitioner's reliance, exclusively, on his mother's past persecution by reason of political opinion, and showing no valid nexus between the economic hardship he suffered and any protected ground of his own, petitioner has suffered no past persecution.

Appellate Information

• Decided 08/31/2007
• Published 08/31/2007

Judges

• DENNIS JACOBS, Chief Judge:, Before:  JACOBS, Chief Judge, PARKER, Circuit Judge, and HURD, District Judge.

Court

• United States Second Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Alexander K. Yu, New York, NY, for Petitioner.


• For Appellees:
  
• Gary L. Hayward, Assistant United States Attorney, for Matthew G. Whitaker, United States Attorney for the District of Iowa, Des Moines, IA, for Respondent.