Tekle v. Mukasey

How courts have described this case

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• holding that an IJ commits legal error by 3 23-1427 denying a petitioner the opportunity to explain inconsistencies
• explaining that when the BIA relies on an IJ’s reasoning, we “examine the reasoning articulated in 2 the IJ’s oral decision”
• finding legal error where IJ failed to provide the petitioner with an opportunity .to explain a perceived inconsistency
• finding legal error in not affording the alien an opportunity to explain the purported inconsistency because the alien may have been able to clarify her original answer
• finding legal error where IJ failed to provide the petitioner with an opportunity to explain a perceived inconsistency
• looking to the IJ’s decision “as a guide to what lay behind the BIA’s conclusion[s]” (quoting Kozulin v. INS, 218 F.3d 1112, 1115 (9th Cir. 2000))

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