United States Seventh Circuit

Petition for review of BIA denial of asylum and withholding of removal is denied where: 1) the BIA's decision that petitioner did not establish past persecution was supported by substantial evidence; 2) the present situation in Iraq did not create a possibility of future persecution; and 3) petitioner failed to exhaust adminstrative remedies on her other claims.

Appellate Information

• Decided 04/05/2006
• Published 04/05/2006

Judges

• MANION, Circuit Judge., Before FLAUM, Chief Judge, and EASTERBROOK and MANION, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Seventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Mark J. Thomas, Thomas & Associates, Chicago, IL, for Petitioner.


• For Appellees:
  
• Karen Lundgren, Department of Homeland Security, Office of the Chief Counsel, Chicago, IL, Christopher Fuller, Department of Justice Civil Division, Immigration Litigation, Washington, DC, for Respondent.