TESFAMICHAEL v. GONZALES

No. 04-61180.

411 F.3d 169 (2005)

Senait Kidane TESFAMICHAEL; Dawit Tessema-Damte, Petitioners, v. Alberto R. GONZALES, United States Attorney General, Respondent.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

May 24, 2005.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thomas M. Peterson, Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, San Francisco, CA, for Petitioners.

Jamie Marie Dowd, David V. Bernal, Thomas Ward Hussey, Dir., OIL, U.S. Dept. of Justice, Washington, DC, E.M. Trominski, Dist. Dir., U.S. INS, Harlingen, TX, Caryl G. Thompson, U.S. INS, Attn: Joe A. Aguilar, New Orleans, LA, for Respondent.

Before DAVIS, SMITH and DENNIS, Circuit Judges.


JERRY E. SMITH, Circuit Judge:

Petitioners Senait Kedane Tesfamichael and Dawit Tessema-Damte, seeking review of their requests for asylum, move this court for a stay of removal pending our consideration, on the merits, of their petition for review of the decision of the Board of Immigration Appeals ("BIA"). We grant the motion for stay.

I.

The petitioners are a married couple seeking asylum in the United States. He, Dawit, is Ethiopian and she,...

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