Legal Opinion
Jinlong Chen v. Alberto R. Gonzales, Attorney General of the United States
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided August 25, 2005No. 04-3965PublishedCited by 18 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ROYNER, Circuit Judge.
Jinlong Chen claims that he was detained and abused in his native China by police who wanted him to testify against the pastor of his under-ground church. This detention and abuse are not mentioned in Chen’s initial asylum application, which he filed soon after arriving in the United States in 1993. Chen blames the omission on an agency that he says prepared the application without asking him about his history. The immigration judge (“IJ”) did not credit this explanation and, finding other aspects of Chen’s testimony also implausible, denied Chen’s requests for asylum,…
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