Legal Opinion
Li Wu Lin v. Immigration & Naturalization Service
Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
Decided January 24, 2001No. 00-1849PublishedCited by 117 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
COWEN, Circuit Judge.
Li Wu Lin, once a student in the People’s Republic of China, participated prominently in four pro-democracy protests in the weeks and days before the massacre at Tiananmen Square. Fearing persecution in the wake of the government’s crackdown, Lin fled his country and eventually arrived in the United States where he sought both political asylum under § 208(a) of the Immigration and Nationality Act, 8 U.S.C. § 1158(a), and withholding of deportation under § 243(h) of the Act, 8 U.S.C. § 1253(h). The immigration judge and the Board of Immigration Appeals…
2Cases cited8 opinions
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- Fengchu Chang v. Immigration & Naturalization ServiceCourt of Appeals for the Third Circuit · 1997
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