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FEI MEI CHENG v. ATTORNEY GENERAL OF U.S.

No. 09-2022.

623 F.3d 175 (2010)

FEI MEI CHENG a/k/a Pei Kwan Lee, Petitioner, v. ATTORNEY GENERAL OF the UNITED STATES, Respondent.

United States Court of Appeals, Third Circuit.

Opinion Filed: October 6, 2010.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Theodore N. Cox, Esq. [Argued], Henry Hwang, Esq. , New York, NY, for Petitioner.

Briena L. Strippoli, Esq. [Argued], Ann M. Welhaf, Esq. , Sada Manickam, Esq. , United States Department of Justice, Office of Immigration Litigation, Civil Division, Washington, DC, for Respondent.

Before: FUENTES, ALDISERT, and ROTH, Circuit Judges.

OPINION OF THE COURT

FUENTES, Circuit Judge:

Fei Mei Cheng ("Cheng") is a citizen and native of China. While living in China's Fujian Province, Cheng became pregnant but under Chinese law was too young to marry her boyfriend. Over the course of her pregnancy, local family planning officials employed a pattern of escalating threats in an effort to persuade her to abort the pregnancy, but Cheng resisted and gave birth to a daughter. In response to her resistance...

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