Legal Opinion
Jian Hui Shao v. Mukasey
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided October 10, 2008No. Docket 07-2689-ag, 07-2666-ag, 07-3415-ag(L), 08-1091-ag(CON)PublishedCited by 1,255 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
REENA RAGGI, Circuit Judge:
In response to reports that China was enforcing its “one family, one child” population control policy through forced abortions and forced sterilizations, in 1996, Congress expressly extended the Immigration and Nationality Act’s definition of a political “refugee” to include persons who had “been forced to abort a pregnancy or to undergo involuntary sterilization, or who [had] been persecuted for failure or refusal to undergo such a procedure or for other resistance to a coercive population control program,” as well as persons who have “a well founded fear” that…
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