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CHEN v. GONZALES

No. 04-3965.

420 F.3d 707 (2005)

Jinlong CHEN, Petitioner, v. Alberto R. GONZALES, Attorney General of the United States, Respondent.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided August 25, 2005.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Yongbing Zhang (argued), Wang, Leonard & Condon, Chicago, IL, for Petitioner.

Karen Lundgren, Department of Homeland Security Office of the District Counsel, Chicago, IL, Jaems J. Fredricks (argued), Gail Kursh, Department of Justice Civil Division, Washington, DC, for Respondent.

Before COFFEY, RIPPLE, and ROVNER, Circuit Judges.

ROVNER, Circuit Judge.

Jinlong Chen claims that he was detained and abused in his native China by police who wanted him to testify against the pastor of his under-ground church. This detention and abuse are not mentioned in Chen's initial asylum application, which he filed soon after arriving in the United States in 1993. Chen blames the omission on an agency that he says prepared the application without asking him about his history. The immigration judge ("IJ") did...

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