United States Eighth Circuit

In a petition for review of the BIA's denial of petitioner's asylum application, the petition is denied where the evidence that petitioner's daughter would be harmed if she were returned to Senegal was not so compelling that no reasonable fact finder could fail to find the requisite fear of persecution.

Appellate Information

• Decided 11/09/2009
• Published 11/09/2009

Judges

• WOLLMAN, Circuit Judge., Before WOLLMAN, HANSEN, and SHEPHERD, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Eighth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Barbara D. Bleish, argued, St. Louis, MO, for petitioner.


• For Appellees:
  
• Anna Nelson, argued, Office of Immigration Litigation, Washington, DC, for respondent.