MULANGA v. ASHCROFT

No. 02-3332.

349 F.3d 123 (2003)

Beatrice MULANGA, Petitioner v. John ASHCROFT, Attorney General of the United States of America, Respondent.

United States Court of Appeals, Third Circuit.

Filed November 14, 2003.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thomas W. Vanasse (Argued), New York Association for New Americans, for Petitioner.

Robert D. McCallum, Jr., Assistant Attorney General, Civil Division, Ernesto H. Molina, Jr., Anthony C. Payne (Argued), Trial Attorney, Office of Immigration Litigation, Civil Division, United States Department of Justice, Washington, for Respondent.

Nadine K. Wettstein, American Immigration Law Foundation, Washington, for Amicus-Appellant.

Before: ALITO and FUENTES, Circuit Judges and SURRICK, District Judge.


OPINION OF THE COURT

FUENTES, Circuit Judge.

Beatrice Mulanga, a citizen of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, petitions for review of the Board of Immigration Appeals' ("BIA") order dismissing her appeal from the Immigration Judge's ("IJ") denial of her application for asylum and withholding of removal. Mulanga argues that the IJ erred by unreasonably requiring her to provide evidence corroborating her husband's political affiliation and by discrediting...

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