Oscar Kayembe v. John Ashcroft, Attorney General of the United States

U.S. Court of Appeals, Third Circuit · Decided 2003-07-01

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OPINION OF THE COURT CUDAHY, Circuit Judge. Oscar Kayembe petitions for review of a Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA) decision denying him asylum. Kayembe claims that his Tutsi ethnicity and his father’s political detention give him a well-founded fear of future persecution should he be returned to his previous home in the Democratic Republic of Congo.…

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