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163421P.pdf 06/26/2017 Richardson Edionseri v. Jefferson B. Sessions III
U.S. Court of Appeals Case No: 16-3421
Petition for Review of an Order of the Board of Immigration Appeals
[PUBLISHED] [Arnold, Author, with Wollman and Gruender, Circuit Judges]
Petition for Review - Immigration. Harms allegedly suffered through the
actions of supernatural forces are not persecution; to the extent
petitioner alleged the Nigerian government was unable or unwilling to
control the devil's human agents, the evidence does not support this
contention as the police regularly responded to his calls for assistance
and followed regular police procedures in dealing with the situations;
substantial evidence also supported the agency's determination that
petitioner did not have a reasonably objective fear of future persecution
by the government or someone the government was unwilling or unable to
control, as the government has made progress in curbing wizard torture and
this, with other evidence, demonstrates that petitioner is less likely to
be persecuted today than he would have been ten years or so ago when he
lived in Nigeria and was labeled a wizard.