Bob Benito BENYAMIN; Anabella Rodriguez; Annisa Sofia Benyamin; Anakarina Benyamin; Bobby Amin Benyamin, Petitioners,
v.
Eric H. HOLDER, Jr., Attorney General, Respondent.
United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.https://leagle.com/images/logo.png
Argued and Submitted December 9, 2008.
Filed August 24, 2009.
Attorney(s) appearing for the Case
Robert G. Ryan (argued and briefed) and Eugene C. Wong, Law Offices of Eugene C. Wong, Inc., San Francisco, CA, for the petitioners.
Peter D. Keisler, Assistant Attorney General, David V. Bernal, Assistant Director, Office of Immigration Litigation, John E. Arbab, U.S. Department of Justice, Environment & Natural Resources Division, S. Nicole Nardone, U.S. Department of Justice, Civil Division, Office of Immigration Litigation, Washington, DC, for the respondent.
Robert E. LeFevre, Office of the District Counsel, Department of Homeland Security, San Francisco, CA, for the respondent.
Before BETTY B. FLETCHER, M. MARGARET McKEOWN and N. RANDY SMITH, Circuit Judges.
United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.
McKEOWN, Circuit Judge:
Our circuit has wisely recognized the abhorrence of the practice of female genital mutilation. Defined as an act that "involves the cutting and removal of all or some of a girl or a woman's external genitalia[,]... the procedure is `extremely painful' and `permanently disfigures the female genitalia ... expos[ing] the girl or woman to the risk of serious, potentially life-threatening complications...
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