YOUKHANNA v. I.N.S.

Nos. 83-3872, 83-3873.

749 F.2d 360 (1984)

Dinka Toma YOUKHANNA, Jabrial Youkhanna, Astar Youkhanna, Petitioners, v. IMMIGRATION AND NATURALIZATION SERVICE, Respondent.

United States Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit.

Decided December 7, 1984.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Fakhri W. Yono, argued, Yono & Sarafa, P.C., Southfield, Mich., Joseph A. Gatto, Charles Owen, argued, Detroit, Mich., for petitioners.

Mary Reed, Asst. U.S. Atty., argued, Robert Kendall, Jr., Thomas W. Hussey, Susan L. Heftel, Civ. Div., Washington, D.C., Christopher Barnes, U.S. Atty., Nicholas J. Pantel, Asst. U.S. Atty., Cincinnati, Ohio, for respondent.

Before LIVELY, Chief Judge, and KENNEDY and MILBURN, Circuit Judges.


CORNELIA G. KENNEDY, Circuit Judge.

Petitioners appeal from decisions of the Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA) denying their applications for withholding of deportation under section 243(h) of the Immigration and Nationality Act, 8 U.S.C. § 1253(h), and for asylum under section 208 of the Act, 8 U.S.C. § 1158.

Petitioners Jabrail Shabo Youkhanna and Astar Youkhanna, a married couple, and Dinka Toma Youkhanna are citizens of Iraq. They entered the...

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