Case Name: Bele DEMBELE, Petitioner-Appellant, v. John ASHCROFT, Attorney General of the United States, Respondent-Appellee
Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 2003-04-25
Citations: 61 F. App'x 773
Docket Number: Docket No. 02-4234
Parties: Bele DEMBELE, Petitioner-Appellant, v. John ASHCROFT, Attorney General of the United States, Respondent-Appellee.
Judges: Present: CALABRESI, F.I. PARKER, and SACK, Circuit Judges.
Reporter: West's Federal Appendix
Volume: 61
Pages: 773–773

Head Matter:
Bele DEMBELE, Petitioner-Appellant, v. John ASHCROFT, Attorney General of the United States, Respondent-Appellee.
Docket No. 02-4234.
United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.
April 25, 2003.
Jeffrey A. Feinbloom (Sheryn F. Bertisch, on the brief), Feinbloom Bertisch LLP, New York, NY, for Petitioner-Appellant.
Michael R. Holden (Kathy S. Marks, Gideon A. Schor, on the brief), Assistant United States Attorneys, for James B. Comey, United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, New York, NY, for Respondent-Appellee.
Present: CALABRESI, F.I. PARKER, and SACK, Circuit Judges.

Opinion:
SUMMARY ORDER
UPON DUE CONSIDERATION, it is hereby ORDERED, ADJUDGED, AND DECREED that the order of the Board of Immigration Appeals be and it hereby is AFFIRMED.
Petitioner Bélé Dembélé appeals from an order of the Board of Immigration Appeals affirming, without opinion, an immigration judge's decision which denied Dembélé's applications for asylum and withholding of deportation. Having carefully reviewed the record, we affirm substantially for the reasons stated in the immigration judge's careful and well reasoned opinion.
The order of the Board of Immigration Appeals is AFFIRMED.
. We note, parenthically, that one might dispute one of the immigration judge's findings-specifically, his determination that Dembélé's "role as an assistant manager . does not put him in [the] category [of persons subject to arrest and detention following the 1991 regime change in Mali]." But this questionable finding did not ultimately matter to the disposition of Dembélé's application, as the immigration judge also found-and we agree-that "if, indeed, [Dembélé] is wanted for questioning or if the government is still interested in arresting him at this point in time, some seven years after the arrest warrant was issued [in 1991], that it would be solely for . interrogation and investigation regarding illegal transactions that [Dembélé] took part in ." (emphasis added).