WANG v. ASHCROFT

No. 03-1212.

367 F.3d 25 (2004)

De Xin WANG, Petitioner, v. John D. ASHCROFT, Attorney General, Respondent.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Decided May 5, 2004.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jules E. Coven, with whom Matthew L. Guadagno and Bretz & Coven, LLP were on brief for petitioner.

Laura L. Flippin, Attorney, Office of Immigration Litigation, with whom Peter D. Keisler, Assistant Attorney General, and Emily Anne Radford, Assistant Director, and Andrew M. Eschen, Attorney, Office of Immigration Litigation, were on brief for respondent.

Before TORRUELLA, Circuit Judge, CYR, Senior Circuit Judge, and LIPEZ, Circuit Judge.


CYR, Senior Circuit Judge.

After petitioner De Xin Wang, a citizen of the People's Republic of China, attempted to enter the United States in June 1992 with a counterfeit alien registration card, the Immigration and Naturalization Service ("INS") commenced exclusion hearings. Wang thereupon submitted an asylum application predicated on the contention that he would be subjected to political persecution-based on his opposition to the Communist Party-upon his return...

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