Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit August 26, 2004, 03-1876 (Mamadou Diallo v. John D. Ashcroft)

ILANA DIAMOND ROVNER, Circuit Judge.

Mamadou Diallo, a native citizen of Mauritania, requested that the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS)

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grant him asylum. The Agency refused, reasoning that Diallo had not been persecuted in Mauritania, did not have a well-founded fear of future persecution there, and had firmly resettled in Senegal prior to his arrival in the United States.