NEGEYA v. GONZALES

No. 04-1983.

417 F.3d 78 (2005)

Hirut NEGEYA, Petitioner, v. Alberto R. GONZALES, Attorney General, Respondent.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Decided July 27, 2005.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Genet Getachew on brief for petitioner.

Peter D. Keisler, Assistant Attorney General, Civil Division, Christopher C. Fuller, Senior Litigation Counsel, Office of Immigration Litigation, and C. Alexander Hewes, Jr., Attorney, United States Department of Justice, on brief for respondent.

Before BOUDIN, Chief Judge, TORRUELLA and SELYA, Circuit Judges.


SELYA, Circuit Judge.

The petitioner, Hirut Negeya, is an Ethiopian national. She seeks judicial review of a final order of the Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA) denying her application for asylum and other relief. Discerning no error, we deny her petition.

The facts are straightforward. The petitioner entered the United States on August 29, 2000, using a counterfeit non-immigrant visa. The Immigration and Naturalization Service immediately detained her and...

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