Chen v. Holder ( 2012 )

11-1015-ag
Chen v. Holder
UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS
FOR THE SECOND CIRCUIT
SUMMARY ORDER
RULINGS BY SUMMARY ORDER DO NOT HAVE PRECEDENTIAL EFFECT. CITATION TO A SUMMARY ORDER
FILED ON OR AFTER JANUARY 1, 2007, IS PERMITTED AND IS GOVERNED BY FEDERAL RULE OF
APPELLATE PROCEDURE 32.1 AND THIS COURT’S LOCAL RULE 32.1.1. WHEN CITING A SUMMARY ORDER
IN A DOCUMENT FILED WITH THIS COURT, A PARTY MUST CITE EITHER THE FEDERAL APPENDIX OR AN
ELECTRONIC DATABASE (WITH THE NOTATION “SUMMARY ORDER”). A PARTY CITING A SUMMARY
ORDER MUST SERVE A COPY OF IT ON ANY PARTY NOT REPRESENTED BY COUNSEL.
1 At a stated term of the United States Court of Appeals
2 for the Second Circuit, held at the Daniel Patrick Moynihan
3 United States Courthouse, 500 Pearl Street, in the City of
4 New York, on the 2nd day of August, two thousand twelve.
5
6 PRESENT:
7 DENNIS JACOBS,
8 Chief Judge,
9 JON O. NEWMAN,
10 PIERRE N. LEVAL,
11 Circuit Judges.
12 _______________________________________
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14 XIAO JIE ZHOU v. HOLDER, 10-1350-ag
15 A093 394 030
16 _______________________________________
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18 SHAO LIN CHEN v. HOLDER, 10-2911-ag
19 A099 938 936
20 _______________________________________
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22 WEN QING YANG v. HOLDER, 10-3684-ag
23 A099 930 548
24 _______________________________________
25
26 DIANQIN JIANG v. HOLDER, 10-4919-ag
27 A089 253 646
28 _______________________________________
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2 SHUYING CHEN v. HOLDER, 11-13-ag
3 A095 164 157
4 _______________________________________
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6 WEN QING CHEN v. HOLDER, 11-1015-ag
7 A099 928 261
8 _______________________________________
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10 SHU-CHIN LIN v. HOLDER, 11-1604-ag
11 A073 034 379
12 _______________________________________
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14 ZOU-QIANG GAO v. HOLDER, 11-2062-ag
15 A072 460 888
16 _______________________________________
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18 MING KUI XIAO v. HOLDER, 11-2303-ag
19 A072 766 265
20 _______________________________________
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22 FENG ZHI LIN v. HOLDER, 11-2572-ag
23 A089 254 238
24 _______________________________________
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26 UPON DUE CONSIDERATION of these petitions for review of
27 Board of Immigration Appeals (“BIA”) decisions, it is hereby
28 ORDERED, ADJUDGED, AND DECREED that the petitions for review
29 are DENIED.
30 Each of these petitions challenges a decision of the
31 BIA affirming the decision of an immigration judge (“IJ”)
32 denying asylum and related relief. The applicable standards
33 of review are well-established. See Jian Hui Shao v.
34 Mukasey, 546 F.3d 138, 157-58 (2d Cir. 2008).
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2 Petitioners, all natives and citizens of China, sought
3 relief from removal based on their claims that they fear
4 persecution because they have had one or more children in
5 the United States, which they contend is in violation of
6 China’s population control program. For largely the same
7 reasons as this Court set forth in Jian Hui Shao, we find no
8 error in the agency’s decisions. See id. at 158-72.
9 We also conclude that the agency did not abuse its
10 discretion when, in certain cases, it declined to credit
11 letters from a few individuals who claimed that they had
12 been required to undergo sterilization because (i) the
13 letters were unauthenticated, (ii) Petitioners failed to
14 demonstrate that the circumstances of the authors were
15 similar to their own, and (iii) the agency in other cases
16 has rejected such isolated reports of forced sterilization
17 in light of significant country evidence to the contrary.
18 See, e.g., Mao Hui Dong, No. A099 934 664 (B.I.A. Feb. 9,
19 2011); see also Jian Hui Shao, 546 F.3d at 153, 159-61, 172.
20 For the foregoing reasons, these petitions for review
21 are DENIED. As we have completed our review, any stay of
22 removal that the Court previously granted in these petitions
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1 is VACATED, and any pending motion for a stay of removal in
2 these petitions is DISMISSED as moot. Any pending request
3 for oral argument in these petitions is DENIED in accordance
4 with Federal Rule of Appellate Procedure 34(a)(2), and
5 Second Circuit Local Rule 34.1(b).
6 FOR THE COURT:
7 Catherine O’Hagan Wolfe, Clerk
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