Legal Opinion
Xian Tong Dong v. Holder
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided October 3, 2012No. 12-1091PublishedCited by 15 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SELYA, Circuit Judge.
This case requires us to decide, for the first time, whether 8 U.S.C. § 1101(a)(42)(B), a statute enacted to pave the way for asylum for victims of China’s coercive population control policies, extends automatically to a spouse of a person forced to undergo an abortion. We join several of our sister circuits in holding that it does not.
The issue arises in connection with the asylum application of Xian Tong Dong, a Chinese national, who seeks to remain in the United States because of, among other things, his wife’s forced abortion. Before us, he solicits judicial review of…
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