Civil Rights
Block on Trump's Asylum Ban Upheld by Supreme Court
Petition for review of an order denying withholding of removal is denied where substantial evidence supports the IJ's finding that petitioner failed to satisfy his burden of establishing a clear probability of future persecution in his home country, and the IJ properly relied on petitioner's failure to provide corroborating evidence in so finding.
Read Liu v. Holder, No 07-0204
Appellate Information
Petition for review of an order of the Board of Immigration Appeals.
Argued: November 28, 2007
Decided: August 5, 2009
Judges
Before: JACOBS, Chief Judge, PARKER and WESLEY, Circuit Judges.
Opinion by JACOBS, Chief Judge.
Counsel
For Petitioner: JIM LI, New York, NY.
For Respondent: KEITH MCMANUS, U.S. Department of Justice, Washington, D.C.