Cuko v. Mukasey, 1st Cir. Mar. 31, 2008
07-1273 Cuko v. Mukasey
Before Torruella, Circuit Judge, Cyr, Senior Circuit Judge, and Lynch, Circuit Judge.
LYNCH, Circuit Judge. Vllasi Cuko, a citizen and national of Albania, petitions for review of an order of the Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA), which affirmed an immigration judge’s (IJ) denial of his application for political asylum. … The petition for review is denied.
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CYR, Senior Circuit Judge (dissenting). Because the majority seriously misreads the appellate record, and particularly the agency’s two written decisions, I respectfully dissent. In deferring wholesale to the agency’s credibility determinations in these circumstances, the majority turns our review function into a hollow exercise in rubber-stamping. … Cuko v. Mukasey.
