AMANFI v. ASHCROFT

Nos. 01-4477, 02-1541.

328 F.3d 719 (2003)

Kwasi AMANFI, Petitioner v. John ASHCROFT, Attorney General of United States, Respondent.

United States Court of Appeals, Third Circuit.

Filed May 16, 2003.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Sandra Greene, (Argued), York, PA, for Petitioner.

Robert D. McCallum, Jr., Assistant Attorney General, Civil Division, Richard M. Evans, Assistant Director, Susan K. Houser, (Argued), Office of Immigration Litigation, U.S. Department of Justice, Civil Division, Washington, DC, for Respondent.

Before BECKER, Chief Judge, NYGAARD and AMBRO, Circuit Judges.


OPINION OF THE COURT

BECKER, Circuit Judge.

In this multi-pronged petition for review of the Board of Immigration Appeal's ("BIA") denial of Kwasi Amanfi's application for asylum, withholding of removal, and protection under the Convention Against Torture, we are primarily presented with the question whether the BIA improperly deviated from its existing interpretation of the Immigration and Naturalization Act's ("INA") definition of a refugee. Amanfi, a...

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