TAIROU v. WHITAKER

No. 17-1404.

909 F.3d 702 (2018)

Mocktar A. TAIROU, Petitioner, v. Matthew G. WHITAKER, Acting Attorney General, Respondent.

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Decided: November 30, 2018.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

ARGUED: John Franklin Hester, Jr. , McCOPPIN & ASSOCIATES, PA, Cary, North Carolina, for Petitioner. Jane Tracey Schaffner , UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE, Washington, D.C., for Respondent. ON BRIEF: Richard Andrew McCoppin , McCOPPIN & ASSOCIATES, P.A., Cary, North Carolina, for Petitioner. Chad A. Readler , Acting Assistant Attorney General, Douglas E. Ginsburg , Assistant Director, Katherine A. Smith , Office of Immigration Litigation, Civil Division, UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE, Washington, D.C., for Respondent.

Petition for review granted and remanded by published opinion. Chief Judge Gregory wrote the opinion, in which Judge Motz and Judge Osteen joined.


Mocktar Tairou ("Tairou") petitions this Court to review a final removal order by the Board of Immigration Appeals ("BIA") denying his asylum and withholding of removal application and ordering his removal to Benin. Tairou contends that the BIA erred in finding that he was not subjected...

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