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Reversing, the Seventh Circuit ruled that the board of immigration appeals improperly denied a Mexican man asylum after a drug cartel kidnapped and tortured him for refusing to let a cartel leader rape his wife.

CHICAGO — Reversing, the Seventh Circuit ruled that the board of immigration appeals improperly denied a Mexican man asylum after a drug cartel kidnapped and tortured him for refusing to let a cartel leader rape his wife.

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