MUHUR v. ASHCROFT

No. 02-3597.

355 F.3d 958 (2004)

Yordanos MUHUR, Petitioner, v. John ASHCROFT, Attorney General of the United States, Respondent.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided January 20, 2004.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Herbert A. Igbanugo (argued), Riddhi Jani, Blackwell Igbanugo, Minneapolis, MN, for Petitioner.

George P. Katsivalis, Department of Homeland Security, Office of the District Counsel, Chicago, IL, John C. Cunningham (argued), Department of Justice, Washington, DC, for Respondent.

Before FLAUM, Chief Judge, and POSNER and WILLIAMS, Circuit Judges.


POSNER, Circuit Judge.

Yordanos Muhur asks us to set aside the order that she be removed (deported) from this country. The order followed the denial of her request for asylum. She presented evidence intended to establish the following facts. She was born to a Christian family in Eritrea in 1974, at a time when it was a province of Ethiopia, though of course it later became and remains an independent country. When she was about 17 she moved with her family to Addis...

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