Does the Board of Immigration Appeals have any authority to withhold removal of a man who has failed to qualify as an asylum seeker?
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The following excerpt is from Singh v. Lynch, 802 F.3d 972 (9th Cir. 2015):
The BIA correctly concluded that because Singh failed to qualify for asylum, he necessarily fails to satisfy the more stringent standard for withholding of removal.See AlvarezSantos v. I.N.S., 332 F.3d 1245, 1255 (9th Cir.2003).
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