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KOURSKI v. ASHCROFT

No. 03-1742.

355 F.3d 1038 (2004)

Vassili KOURSKI, Petitioner, v. John ASHCROFT, Attorney General of the United States, Respondent.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided January 22, 2004.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Stephen D. Berman (argued), Chicago, IL, for Petitioner.

George P. Katsivalis, Department of Homeland Security, Office of the District Counsel, Chicago, IL, Mark W. Pennak, Catherine Y. Hancock (argued), Department of Justice, Civil Division, Appellate Section, Washington, DC, for Respondent.

Before BAUER, POSNER, and EVANS, Circuit Judges.

POSNER, Circuit Judge.

Vassili Kourski asks us to set aside the order removing (deporting) him from the United States. He was born in Russia, came to the United States in 1996 on a tourist visa, and applied for asylum before his visa expired. He claims to be Jewish, and to have been persecuted in Russia by anti-Semites whom the police either cannot or will not control. The only evidence of his being Jewish that he presented at his removal hearing, besides his own...

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