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MAKADJI v. GONZALES

Docket No. 03-40341.

470 F.3d 450 (2006)

Sidi MAKADJI, Petitioner, v. Alberto GONZALES, United States Attorney General, Respondent.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided: December 5, 2006.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Lynn Neugebauer, Safe Horizon Immigration Law Project, Jackson Heights, NY, for Petitioner.

Loretta F. Radford, Assistant United States Attorney (David E. O'Meilia, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Oklahoma, on the brief), United States Attorney's Office for the Northern District of Oklahoma, Tulsa, OK, for Respondent.

Before LEVAL, KATZMANN, and RAGGI, Circuit Judges.

LEVAL, Circuit Judge.

Sidi Makadji petitions for review of the decision of the Board of Immigration Appeals ("BIA" or the "agency"), which affirmed the decision of the Immigration Judge ("IJ") denying his claims for political asylum and withholding of removal under the Immigration and Nationality Act. The IJ denied asylum on the ground that, after Makadji was forcibly deported from Mauritania on account of race, he "firmly...

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