BALTTI v. SESSIONS

No. 16-1037.

878 F.3d 240 (2017)

Binyam Bekele BALTTI, Petitioner v. Jefferson B. SESSIONS, III, Attorney General of the United States, Respondent.

United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.

Filed: December 19, 2017.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Benjamin Richard Casper Sanchez , Mary Georgevich , An Hoang , University of Minnesota, Law School, Minneapolis, MN, Lauren Schmoke , Kasaby & Nicholls, Omaha, NE, Jesus Torres Garza , Deleon & Nestor, Minneapolis, MN, for Petitioner.

Aimee J. Carmichael , Trial Attorney, Lisa Damiano , Trial Attorney, Karen Yolanda Drummond , Corey Leigh Farrell , Stefanie N. Hennes , Trial Attorney, Robert Markle , Senior Litigation Counsel, Carl H. McIntyre , U.S. Department of Justice, Civil Division, Office of Immigration Litigation, Washington, DC, for Respondent.

Before RILEY and BEAM, Circuit Judges, and ROSSITER, District Judge.


A former member of local government in his native Ethiopia, Binyam Bekele Baltti entered the United States in 2009 on a non-immigrant visitor visa after witnessing two government-sponsored massacres. Baltti now petitions for review of the Board of Immigration Appeals' (BIA) denial of his application for asylum, withholding of removal, and protection...

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