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Political Asylum

Ordering the Bureau of Immigration Appeals to review its denial of political asylum to a man who received multiple death threats in his homeland of Benin, the Fourth Circuit emphasized: “Our binding precedent explicitly holds that a threat of death constitutes persecution.”

RICHMOND, Va. — Ordering the Bureau of Immigration Appeals to review its denial of political asylum to a man who received multiple death threats in his homeland of Benin, the Fourth Circuit emphasized: “Our binding precedent explicitly holds that a threat of death constitutes persecution.”

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