United States Second Circuit

Petition for review challenging upholding of petitioners's removability under 8 U.S.C. section 1227(a)(2)(A)(ii) and denying his application for asylum, withholding of removal, and relief under the Convention Against Torture is denied where: 1) since petitioner's grand larceny conviction qualifies as a conviction under 8 U.S.C. section 1101(a)(48)(A), the BIA correctly found him removable; 2) petitioner raises no constitutional claims and there are no errors of law; and 3) petitioner's claim regarding being subject to torture was too speculative in that it involves a chain of assumptions regarding the respondent's potential economic situation in Ukraine.

Appellate Information

• Decided 03/04/2008
• Published 03/04/2008

Judges

• PER CURIAM:, Before:  McLAUGHLIN, B.D. PARKER, WESLEY, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Second Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Kai W. De Graaf, New York, NY, for Petitioner.


• For Appellees:
  
• Emily Howard, Assistant United States Attorney for Reginald I. Lloyd, United States Attorney for the District of South Carolina, for Respondent.