Legal Opinion
Zhen Li Iao v. Alberto R. Gonzales
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided March 9, 2005No. 04-1700PublishedCited by 74 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
POSNER, Circuit Judge.
An immigration judge ordered the petitioner, a citizen of China seeking asylum in the United States, to be removed (deported) from the United States, and the Board of Immigration Appeals affirmed without opinion. The basis of the immigration judge’s ruling was that the petitioner is not entitled to asylum because she lacks a well-founded fear of being persecuted by the Chinese government should she return to China.
A woman in her early 20s, Li arrived in the United States in 2000. At the removal hearing she testified through an interpreter that she had begun to practice…
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