Legal Opinion

Wan Chien Kho v. Keisler

Court of Appeals for the First Circuit

Decided October 16, 2007No. 06-2306PublishedCited by 65 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

LYNCH, Circuit Judge.

Wan Chien Kho petitions for review from the denial of his application for withholding of removal. His claims were based on his experience as an ethnic Chinese Christian in Indonesia, including his testimony about four incidents of discrimination and harassment.

The Board of Immigration Appeals (“BIA”) held that the incidents Kho described did not rise to the level of persecution and that Kho had not shown that the incidents were due to government action, government-supported action, or the government’s unwillingness or inability to control private conduct. The BIA held he…

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