Adel Fadlala Jarbough v. Attorney General of the United States

How courts have described this case

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• holding that two brief detentions of petitioner by the Syrian government, while “harassing and intimidating,” did not rise to the level of persecution
• holding that two brief detentions by Syrian government, which included physical abuse that produced bruising, were “harassing and intimidating” and “deplorable,” but did not amount to persecution
• holding that substantial evidence supported finding of no past persecution when officers detained petitioner for two days, threatened and beat him during interrogation, yet he did not require immediate medical intervention
• holding that “arguments such as that an Immigration Judge or the BIA incorrectly weighed evidence [or] failed to consider evidence . . . are not questions of law under § 1252(a)(2)(D).”
• noting that “[a]busive treatment and harassment, while always deplorable, may not rise to the level of persecution”
• observing that “[a]busive treatment and harassment, while always deplorable, may not rise to the level of persecution”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).