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Paul Kiorkis v. Erich. Holder, Jr., Attorney General

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ARGUED OCTOBER 19, 2010

Before CUDAHY and ROVNER, Circuit Judges, and ADELMAN, District Judge.

In 2007, the Department of Homeland Security placed Paul Kiorkis, a Lebanese citizen who had been legally residing in the United States “The Honorable Lynn Adelman, District Judge for the Eastern District of Wisconsin, sitting by designation. for over a decade, into removal proceedings due to his prior conviction for possession of a controlled substance. Kiorkis conceded that he was removable, but filed an application seeking asylum and other forms of relief. An immigration court denied his request for asylum after conducting a full merits hearing, finding that Kiorkis had failed to establish that he had a well-established fear of future persecution on the basis of a statutorily-protected ground. Kiorkis appealed the immigration court’s decision to the Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA). A one-member panel of the Board denied Kiorkis’s appeal and affirmed the immigration court’s analysis in its entirety. Kiorkis filed an appeal with this court, alleging that the immigration court and the Board failed to consider all of his future persecution claims. We affirm the decisions below.

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