ISSAQ v. HOLDER

No. 09-2288.

617 F.3d 962 (2010)

Adnan I. ISSAQ, Petitioner, v. Eric H. HOLDER, Jr., Attorney General of the United States, Respondent.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided August 17, 2010.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Stanley J. Horn (argued), Horn, Khalaf, Abuzir, Mitchell, & Schmidt, Chicago, IL, for Petitioner.

Richard Zanfardino (argued), Department of Justice, Washington, DC, for Respondent.

Before POSNER, RIPPLE, and WOOD, Circuit Judges.


WOOD, Circuit Judge.

In 1997, Adnan Issaq, a citizen of Iraq, moved with his parents and three siblings from Syria to the United States, where they were admitted as refugees. Issaq and his family are Christians of Assyrian descent. His father, a native of Iraq, and his mother, a Syrian, were married in Syria but settled in Baghdad, Iraq, where Issaq was born in 1978. Fearing religious persecution, Issaq's parents took the family to Syria in 1991. There they remained...

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