024124P.pdf   12/02/2004  Mareko Molathwa  v.  John Ashcroft
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  02-4124
   Agency   
   Petition for Review - Immigration. Substantial evidence supported the 
   BIA's determination that petitioner presented insufficient evidence to 
   show he was subjected to harassment or mistreatment by the Botswana 
   government or the general public as a result of his sexual orientation, and 
   nothing in the record suggests he will be the target of persecution if he is 
   removed to Botswana. 
   [PUBLISHED] [Riley, Author, with M. Arnold and Bowman, Circuit Judges] 
  
024124P.pdf   07/08/2004  Mareko Molathwa  v.  John Ashcroft
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  02-4124
   Agency   
   Petition for Review - Immigration. Motion for stay of voluntary 
   departure must be denied; because the petitioners' voluntary-departure 
   period has expired and they did not move for stays before the expiration 
   of the period, granting a stay would have the effect of extending the 
   voluntary departure period, and under 8 C.F.R. 1240.26(f), the power to 
   grant extensions is limited to specific executive branch officers; the 
   petitioners' reliance on Safaie v. INS, 25 F.3d 636 (8th Cir. 1994) is 
   misplaced, because the statute that case interprets is no longer in effect. 
   [PUBLISHED] [Riley, Author, with Melloy and Colloton, Circuit Judges]