Legal Opinion
Mya Lwin v. Immigration and Naturalization Service
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided May 15, 1998No. 97-2490PublishedCited by 103 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MANION, Circuit Judge.
Mya Lwin, a Burmese national, is the father of a student dissident who fled Burma in the wake of the military junta’s crackdown on pro-democracy uprisings in 1988. Despite orders from the police that he report any contact with his son, Mya continued to maintain unauthorized communications with him, first when his son reached Thailand and later after his son made his way to the United States. Mya visited his son in the United States and then applied for political asylum and withholding of deportation. The Immigration Judge (IJ) denied Mya’s application, and that decision…
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