Nigerian asylum seeker’s fate hangs on US Supreme Court ruling The case centers on whether captive domestic duties like cooking constitute "material support" for terrorism. Africa Just now
What you need to know: Nigerian man prepared meals for apparent separatist groupThreats forced him to flee to Venezuela, then USOfficials during Biden administration denied asylum The US Supreme Court agreed on Tuesday to hear a bid by President Donald Trump's administration to deny asylum to a man who was forced to prepare meals for an apparent separatist group in Nigeria, in a case that could expand what officials may deem terrorist activity under American immigration law.
The justices took up the Justice Department's appeal of a lower court's ruling in favor of Nigerian citizen Izuchukwu Ozurumba, who was denied US asylum due to his work cooking for a group known as the Unknown Gunmen that US officials considered to be a terrorist organization." The case centers on whether Ozurumba's work for the group fell under provisions of US immigration law that bar the entry of non-US citizens who have "engaged in a terrorist activity," including actions that provide "material support" for such activity or "to a terrorist organization."
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