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HABCHY v. GONZALES

No. 05-3078.

471 F.3d 858 (2006)

Boutros Chafic HABCHY, Petitioner, v. Alberto GONZALES, Attorney General; Michael Chertoff, Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security; Asa Hutchinson, Under Secretary for Border and Transportation Security; Michael J. Garcia, Assistant Secretary for Immigration and Customs Enforcement; Debbie Achim, ICE Detention and Removal Operations Field Office Director, Chicago, IL; Ken Carlson, ICE Deputy Field Office Director, Kansas City, MO; Wardell Nance, Director, ICE Detention and Removal Operations, St. Louis, MO 63108, Respondents.

United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.

Filed: December 20, 2006.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Timothy E. Wichmer, argued, St. Louis, MO, for Petitioner.

Michael Truman, argued, U.S. Department of Justice, Washington, D.C. (Catherine L. Hanaway and Jane Rund, on the brief), for respondent.

Before ARNOLD, BYE, and MELLOY, Circuit Judges.

MELLOY, Circuit Judge.

Boutros Chafic Habchy, a native and citizen of Lebanon, petitions this court for review of two decisions of the Board of Immigration Appeals ("the Board") denying him relief under this country's asylum laws. First, he argues that the Board erred in affirming the denial of his motion to reconsider a decision of the Immigration Judge ("IJ"), in which the IJ refused to reopen a removal order on the basis of ineffective assistance of counsel. Second...

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