Legal Opinion
ZHOU ZHENG v. Holder
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided June 30, 2009No. 08-2041PublishedCited by 11 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SELYA, Circuit Judge.
The petitioner, Zhou Zheng, is a Chinese national. She seeks judicial review of a final order of the Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA) that affirmed both an order of removal and the concomitant denial of a cross-application for asylum, withholding of removal, and protection under the United Nations Convention Against Torture (CAT). Concluding, as we do, that the BIA’s decision is supported by substantial evidence, we deny the petition for judicial review.
The facts are straightforward. The petitioner entered the United States illegally in December of 1998. While living in…
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