Filed: Feb. 23, 2009
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Summary: NOT RECOMMENDED FOR FULL-TEXT PUBLICATION File Name: 09a0154n.06 Filed: February 23, 2009 No. 08-3053 UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE SIXTH CIRCUIT WASIM SAQIB, ) ) Petitioner, ) ON PETITION FOR REVIEW ) OF A DECISION OF THE v. ) BOARD OF IMMIGRATION ) APPEALS ERIC H. HOLDER, Jr., Attorney General, ) ) MEMORANDUM Respondent. ) OPINION BEFORE: NORRIS, BATCHELDER, and ROGERS, Circuit Judges. PER CURIAM. Petitioner Wasim Saqib, a Pakistani national, appeals from the denial of his application
Summary: NOT RECOMMENDED FOR FULL-TEXT PUBLICATION File Name: 09a0154n.06 Filed: February 23, 2009 No. 08-3053 UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE SIXTH CIRCUIT WASIM SAQIB, ) ) Petitioner, ) ON PETITION FOR REVIEW ) OF A DECISION OF THE v. ) BOARD OF IMMIGRATION ) APPEALS ERIC H. HOLDER, Jr., Attorney General, ) ) MEMORANDUM Respondent. ) OPINION BEFORE: NORRIS, BATCHELDER, and ROGERS, Circuit Judges. PER CURIAM. Petitioner Wasim Saqib, a Pakistani national, appeals from the denial of his application ..
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NOT RECOMMENDED FOR FULL-TEXT PUBLICATION
File Name: 09a0154n.06
Filed: February 23, 2009
No. 08-3053
UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS
FOR THE SIXTH CIRCUIT
WASIM SAQIB, )
)
Petitioner, ) ON PETITION FOR REVIEW
) OF A DECISION OF THE
v. ) BOARD OF IMMIGRATION
) APPEALS
ERIC H. HOLDER, Jr., Attorney General, )
) MEMORANDUM
Respondent. ) OPINION
BEFORE: NORRIS, BATCHELDER, and ROGERS, Circuit Judges.
PER CURIAM. Petitioner Wasim Saqib, a Pakistani national, appeals from the denial of
his application for a stay of removal, 8 U.S.C. § 1231(b)(3), and relief under the Convention Against
Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman, or Degrading Treatment or Punishment. The Board of
Immigration Appeals (“the Board”) dismissed the appeal and affirmed the oral decision of an
immigration judge.
Having had an opportunity to review the administrative record and the briefs of the parties,
we deny Saqib’s petition for review based upon the Board’s conclusion that petitioner failed to
establish that it was more likely than not that he would be persecuted based upon a protected ground.
As the Board explained in its decision, petitioner has not linked the actions taken against him by
private investors in a project undertaken by the company for which he worked with governmental
No. 08-3053
Saqib v. Mukasey
action. In short, he has not demonstrated persecution based upon political activity. In light of the
Board’s reasoned decision, an opinion on our part is unnecessary.
The petition for review is denied based upon the reasoning found in the Board’s decision of
December 27, 2007.
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