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Second Circuit· 11/20/2007

Mufied v. Mukasey

Citations

  • 508 F.3d 88
  • 2007 WL 4105381

How courts have described this case

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  • noting that the BIA failed to supplement the IJ’s discussion of persecution and “appeared to base its denial of Mufied’s appeal on its finding that he had personally ‘experienced few problems’ ”
  • recognizing as reasonable the 18 “systemic, pervasive, or organized” standard for finding a 19 pattern or practice of persecution claim
  • noting that “we are unsure even as to what indices the Board had in mind to guide us in assessing whether persecution is systemic, pervasive, or organized at all.”
  • stating that BIA’s definition of pattern or practice as “systemic or pervasive” appeared reasonable
  • holding that an applicant shall not be required to 8 demonstrate that he would be singled out for persecution if 9 he demonstrates a pattern or practice of persecution of a 10 group on account of a protected ground and his own inclusion 11 in or identification with that group
  • declining to assume that IJ made findings “sub silentio merely because she considered evidence relevant to that question for another purpose”

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Judges: Jacobs, Katzmann, Hall

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