YUAN RONG CHEN v. GONZALES

No. 04-1126.

457 F.3d 670 (2006)

Yuan Rong CHEN and Yin Lin, Petitioners, v. Alberto R. GONZALES, Respondent.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided August 8, 2006.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Nancy Carper (argued), Carper & Associates, Chicago, IL, for Petitioner.

Karen Lundgren, Department of Homeland Security Office of the District Counsel, Chicago, IL, Ari Nazarov (argued), Department of Justice Civil Division, Immigration Litigation, Washington, DC, for Respondent.

Before BAUER, KANNE, and WILLIAMS, Circuit Judges.


KANNE, Circuit Judge.

Chinese national Yuan Rong Chen and his wife Yin Lin petitioned for asylum, withholding of removal, and protection under the Convention Against Torture, claiming that they feared persecution for resisting the government's one-child policy if forced to return to China. Before the immigration judge (IJ), they argued that Chen had suffered past persecution because: (1) he was expelled from school for voicing opposition to the birth-control policy...

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