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MUSSIE v. U.S. I.N.S.

No. 98-2019.

172 F.3d 329 (1999)

Sara MUSSIE, Petitioner, v. U.S. IMMIGRATION & NATURALIZATION SERVICE, Respondent.

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Decided April 9, 1999.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

ARGUED: Diane Elizabeth McHugh-Martinez, Law Office of Mchugh-martinez, Washington, D.C., for Petitioner. Timothy Paul McIlmail, Office of Immigration Litigation, Civil Division, United States Department of Justice, Washington, D.C., for Respondent. ON BRIEF: Frank W. Hunger, Assistant Attorney General, Karen Fletcher Torstenson, Assistant Director, Office of Immigration Litigation, Civil Division, United States Department of Justice, Washington, D.C., for Respondent.

Before LUTTIG, MOTZ, and TRAXLER, Circuit Judges.

Petition denied by published opinion. Judge LUTTIG wrote the opinion, in which Judge DIANA GRIBBON MOTZ and Judge TRAXLER joined.

OPINION

LUTTIG, Circuit Judge:

Sara Mussie petitions for review of the Board of Immigration Appeals' denial of her application for asylum. Because the Board's findings that Mussie had been "firmly resettled" in a third country prior to seeking asylum and that Mussie was not entitled to invoke the exceptions to the "firm...

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