Legal Opinion
Weinong Lin v. Holder
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided August 19, 2014No. Docket 12-179-agPublishedCited by 9 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
CALABRESI, Circuit Judge:
This case concerns whether political activity first undertaken in the United States amounts to “changed circumstances” for purposes of the asylum provision of the Immigration and Nationality Act (“INA”), 8 U.S.C. § 1158. Weinong Lin, a native and citizen of China who entered the United States as a non-immigrant in 1999, avows that he fled China because of his experience with “autocracy and corruption” there, Appellant’s Br. at 5, that he harbored private anti-communist political beliefs when he left China, but that he did not publicly express those views until…
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