Mensah Koffi Adekpe v. Alberto R. Gonzales

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• ruling that location of political meeting was immaterial because it did not concern basic claim of being detained and beaten for political activity
• concluding that discrepancies about whether university student’s meeting occurred on campus or “at home,” whether meeting had 13 or 20 participants, and what precisely happened to an informant, did not concern basic core of applicant’s claim that he was beaten for political activities
• noting that letters sent to asylum applicant from family mem- bers stating that government had inquired into ap- plicant’s whereabouts bolstered applicant’s claim of past persecution
• remanding where “vast majority” of IJ’s reasons based on easily explained discrepancies or did not go to heart of claim
• “We must affirm the IJ’s decision unless it is not supported by substantial evidence . . . or unless the IJ ignored probative evidence.”
• where majority of discrepancies on which judge relied were imma‐ terial but two discrepancies were arguably important, re‐ mand was still necessary because adverse credibility determi‐ nation “relied in such large part on unimportant and explica‐ ble discrepancies”

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