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ABEBE v. GONZALES

No. 02-72390.

432 F.3d 1037 (2005)

Almaz Sayoum ABEBE; Sisay Mengistu, Petitioners, v. Alberto R. GONZALES, Attorney General, Respondent.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Filed December 30, 2005.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Philip Hornik (argued), Portland, Oregon; Karen Musalo (argued), Stephen Knight and Tala Hartsough, Center for Gender and Refugee Studies, University of California Hastings College of the Law, San Francisco, CA, for the petitioners.

Peter D. Keisler, Assistant Attorney General, Donald E. Keener, Deputy Director and Alison R. Drucker, Senior Litigation Counsel (argued), United States Department of Justice, Washington, D.C., for the respondent.

Before: SCHROEDER, Chief Judge, KOZINSKI, RYMER, THOMAS, W. FLETCHER, PAEZ, BERZON, TALLMAN, CLIFTON, BYBEE, and CALLAHAN, Circuit Judges.

CLIFTON, Circuit Judge.

Mr. Sisay Mengistu and his wife, Ms. Almaz Abebe (together Petitioners), are natives and citizens of Ethiopia who petition for review of a final order of the Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA) denying their application for asylum and withholding of removal. The BIA adopted the decision of the Immigration Judge (IJ), who concluded that Petitioners had not demonstrated a well-founded fear of persecution. Petitioners argued that if the family...

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