US Supreme Court to hear asylum fight involving Nigerian cook

Nigerian man prepared meals for apparent separatist group Threats forced him to flee to Venezuela, then US Officials during Biden administration denied asylum By Andrew Chung Oct 13 (Reuters) — 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 lower court ruled that cooking did not qualify as "material support" for terrorism under the immigration statute. The Supreme Court is expected to hear arguments and rule in the case by the end of June. The administration, in appealing the case to the Supreme Court, said that if the lower court's ruling were allowed to stand, it would "substantially increase the burden on the government in excluding aliens with links to