Sowe

FOR PUBLICATION

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS

FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT

BABA SOWE, 

Petitioner, No. 06-72938 v.  Agency No.

A79-569-509

MICHAEL B. MUKASEY, Attorney General, OPINION Respondent.  On Petition for Review of an Order of the Board of Immigration Appeals

Argued and Submitted May 9, 2008—Seattle, Washington

Filed August 19, 2008

Before: Arthur L. Alarcón, Susan P. Graber, and Johnnie B. Rawlinson, Circuit Judges.

Opinion by Judge Alarcón

11027 11030 SOWE v. MUKASEY

COUNSEL

Mark B. Nerheim, Bauman-Becia Law Group, Seattle, Wash- ington, for the petitioner.

Marion E. Guyton and William C. Erb, Jr., United States Department of Justice, Office of Immigration Litigation, Civil Division, Washington, D.C., for the respondent.

OPINION

ALARCÓN, Circuit Judge:

Baba Sowe, a native and citizen of Sierra Leone, appealed to the Board of Immigration Appeals (“BIA”) from the denial of his applications for asylum, withholding of removal, and protection under the Convention Against Torture (“CAT”). Sowe presented evidence before an immigration judge (“IJ”) that he and his family…