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TESFAMICHAEL v. GONZALES

No. 04-61180.

469 F.3d 109 (2006)

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

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

October 24, 2006.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Brett Michael Schuman (argued), Thomas M. Peterson, Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, San Francisco, CA, for Petitioners.

Eric Warren Marsteller (argued), Civ. Div., David V. Bernal, Thomas Ward Hussey, Dir., Jamie Marie Dowd, U.S. Dept. of Justice, OIL, 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 JONES, Chief Judge, and WIENER and PRADO, Circuit Judges.

EDITH H. JONES, Chief Judge:

Petitioners seek review of the decision of the Board of Immigration Appeals ("BIA") denying them asylum, individually and as a married couple, from Eritrea and Ethiopia. Finding no reversible error, we DENY the petition for review.

BACKGROUND

Comprising Ethiopia, Eritrea, Somalia, and Sudan, the region known as the Horn of Africa has a troubled history. After World War II, Italy relinquished control of its African colonies...

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