United States Fourth Circuit

Denial of application for withholding of removal is affirmed where petitioner's claim focuses solely on the psychological harm she claims she will suffer if her daughter accompanies her to Senegal and is subjected to female genital mutilation, and there is no derivative withholding claim recognized for petitioner's daughter.

Appellate Information

• Decided 06/12/2007
• Published 06/12/2007

Judges

• Before NIEMEYER and WILLIAMS, Circuit Judges, and T.S. ELLIS, III, Senior United States District Judge for the Eastern District of Virginia, sitting by designation.

Court

• United States Fourth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• ARGUED:  Peter Nyoh, Enow & Patcha, Silver Spring, Maryland, for Petitioner.  Kristin Kay Edison, United States Department of Justice, Office of Immigration Litigation, Washington, D.C., for Respondent.   ON BRIEF:  Kell Enow, Enow & Patcha, Silver Spring, Maryland, for Petitioner.  Peter D. Keisler, Assistant Attorney General, Civil Division, M. JocelynLopez Wright, Assistant Director, United States Department of Justice, Office of Immigration Litigation, Washington, D.C., for Respondent.