AHMED v. HOLDER

No. 09-2085.

611 F.3d 90 (2010)

Usman AHMED and Afsheen Iqbal Butt, Petitioners, v. Eric H. HOLDER, Jr., Attorney General, Respondent.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Decided July 13, 2010.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Daniel F. Cashman and Cashman & Lovely, P.C. on brief for petitioners.

Tony West, Assistant Attorney General, Civil Division, United States Department of Justice, Shelley R. Goad, Assistant Director, Office of Immigration Litigation, and Jennifer A. Singer, Trial Attorney, Office of Immigration Litigation, on brief for respondent.

Before TORRUELLA, SELYA and HOWARD, Circuit Judges.


SELYA, Circuit Judge.

The petitioners, Usman Ahmed and Afsheen Iqbal Butt, are Pakistani nationals. They seek judicial review of an order of the Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA) denying their applications for withholding of removal and protection under the United Nations Convention Against Torture (CAT). Discerning no error, we deny the petition.

The facts are straightforward. In January of 1997, Ahmed entered the...

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