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193480P.pdf 04/08/2021 Abdirizak Ahmed v. Merrick B. Garland
U.S. Court of Appeals Case No: 19-3480
Petition for Review of an Order of the Board of Immigration Appeals
[PUBLISHED] [Stras, Author, with Colloton and Grasz, Circuit Judges]
Petition for Review - Immigration. Khat contains at least two substances
listed on the federal drug schedules, and petitioner's conviction under
Minnesota's fifth-degree possession statute was a crime related to a
federal controlled substance, and he was removable; the cognizability of a
proposed social group for asylum purposes presents a question of law the
Board of Immigration Appeals reviews de novo; the Board did not err in
determining that petitioner had failed to carry his burden of proving
entitlement to asylum and that, to the extent the IJ found he had, the
finding was clearly erroneous.