Haifa Saleh El Himri Musab El Himri v. John Ashcroft, Attorney General

U.S. Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit · Decided 2004-08-24

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HUG, Circuit Judge: This case requires us to look carefully at the methods the government uses to select a country of removal. The petitioners in this case are stateless Palestinians who fled Kuwait, the country of their nativity, when Iraq invaded Kuwait in 1991. They have been living in the United States since that time and now seek asylum, withholding of removal, and protection…

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