United States Seventh Circuit

Christian Lebanese citizen's petition for review of a denial of a motion to reopen asylum proceedings is granted and the matter remanded where the BIA failed to give reasoned consideration to post-hearing evidence, including the 2006 war between Israel and Hezbollah, as well as increased violence against Christians in Lebanon following the publication in Denmark of cartoons caricaturing the Prophet Muhammad.

Appellate Information

• Decided 11/16/2007
• Published 11/16/2007

Judges

• POSNER, Circuit Judge., Before POSNER, KANNE, and ROVNER, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Seventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Claudia Valenzuela (submitted a brief), Midwest Immigrant and Human Rights Center Travelers and Immigrants Aid, Chicago, IL, for Petitioner.


• For Appellees:
  
• Manuel A. Palau (submitted a brief), Department of Justice Civil Division, Immigration Litigation, Washington, DC, for Respondent.