Yuchai Chen v. Jefferson B. Sessions, III

Chinese citizen Yuchai Chen petitions for review of an order of the Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA) upholding an-Immigration Judge’s (IJ’s) denial of her application for asylum and withholding of removal based on her Christian religion. 1 We conclude that substantial evidence supports the determination that Chen did not establish either past persecution or that she had an objectively reasonable, well-founded fear of future persecution. See Yu An Li v. Holder, 745 F.3d 336, 340 (8th Cir. 2014) (standard of review); see also Singh v. Lynch, 803 F.3d 988, 991 (8th Cir. 2015) (persecution is…