Legal Opinion
Qiu Chen v. Eric Holder, Jr.
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided May 9, 2013No. 12-2563PublishedCited by 28 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
POSNER, Circuit Judge.
The petitioner, a Chinese citizen, is the mother of two children (both boys) born to her in the United States. She seeks asylum on the ground that she is likely to be forcibly sterilized if she returns to China. Like most seekers of asylum on that ground she is from Fujian Province and will be returned there if denied asylum. The immigration judge, seconded by the Board of Immigration Appeals, denied her application on the ground that she has no well-founded fear of sterilization. The immigration judge also found that she could relocate to a part of China in which the…
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