United States Eighth Circuit

In a petition for review of the BIA's order denying petitioners asylum, withholding of removal, and relief under the Convention Against Torture, the petition is denied where: 1) State Department country reports can support a factual finding of changed conditions to rebut a presumption of a well-founded fear of future persecution; and 2) the record evidence did not compel a reversal of the IJ's decision to deny asylum.

Appellate Information

• Decided 09/22/2009
• Published 09/22/2009

Judges

• Before BYE, HANSEN, and BENTON, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Eighth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• David K. Link, argued, Wichita, KS, for Petitioner.


• For Appellees:
  
• Paul Fiorino, USDOJ, OIL, argued, Washington, DC, for Respondent.