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JIN YI LIAO v. HOLDER

Docket No. 07-3146-ag.

558 F.3d 152 (2009)

JIN YI LIAO, Xiao Zhi Wu, Petitioners, v. Eric H. HOLDER, Jr., Attorney General of the United States, Respondent.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided: March 4, 2009.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Joshua Bardavid, Office of Stephanie Yutkin, New York, N.Y., for Petitioner.

Alex Goring, Assistant Attorney General (Jeffrey S. Bucholtz, Michelle Gorden Latour, and P. Michael Truman, on the brief), Office of Immigration Litigation, U.S. Department of Justice, Washington, DC, for Respondent.

Before CALABRESI, SOTOMAYOR, B.D. PARKER, Circuit Judges.

CALABRESI, Circuit Judge:

Petitioners Jin Yi Liao and Xiao Zhi Wu, mother and son, petition from the June 25, 2007 order of the Board of Immigration Appeals ("BIA") dismissing their appeal and affirming the decision of Immigration Judge ("IJ") William Jankun, who denied their applications for asylum and withholding of removal. Petitioner Liao applied for asylum based on political persecution, alleging that she left China when family planning authorities threatened...

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