United States Eighth Circuit

Petition for review of denial of Ethiopian mother and son's application for asylum and related relief is denied where the BIA did not err in finding that petitioners had failed to establish either past persecution or a well-founded fear of future persecution.

Appellate Information

• Decided 04/02/2007
• Published 04/02/2007

Judges

• PER CURIAM., Before LOKEN, Chief Judge, MURPHY and SHEPHERD, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Eighth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Elizabeth A. Holmes, Karam & Associates, Bloomington, MN, for Petitioners.


• For Appellees:
  
• Scott Baniecke, U.S. Immigration & Naturalization Service, Richard M. Evans, Thomas W. Hussey, Joan E. Smiley, Karen Drummond, U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Immigration Litigation, Ben Franklin Station, Washington, DC, Lori Scialabba, U.S. Department of Justice, Executive Office for Immigration Review Falls Church, VA, for Respondent.