A mother facing deportation who feared she would be beaten or killed for trying to protect her grade-school-age daughter from genital mutilation in Senegal has won a reprieve from the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.
The three-judge panel on Dec. 8 ordered the Board of Immigration Appeals to reconsider Ndeye Ndicke Seck’s application to remain in the United States. The judges remanded the case and ruled the board must address evidence that Seck would likely be persecuted in Senegal.
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