Beck v. Mukasey

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• finding that persecution by “severe economic deprivation” is a standard “consistent with many prior decisions of this court”
• reasoning economic deprivation can amount to persecution if it is “ ‘sufficiently harsh to constitute a threat to life or freedom’ ” (quoting Ahmed v. Ashcroft, 396 F.3d 1011, 1014 (8th Cir. 2005))

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).