Yiu Sing Chun v. Sava

OAKES, Circuit Judge:

This case presents the question whether aliens who are stowaways seeking political asylum are entitled to a hearing before an immigration judge after their applications for asylum have been denied by an Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) District Director. After holding that the INS District Directors had not abused their discretion in denying Yiu Sing Chun and Jee-Chiu Shan, two young men from the People’s Republic of China, asylum status under the Refugee Act of 1980, 8 U.S.C. §§ 1158(a),1 1101(a)(42)(A),2 the United *870States District Court for the Eastern…