Shan Teng Chen v. Attorney General of the United States

Type

Opinion of the Court

Per curiam

Yes — no individual author

Filed

Dec. 22, 2011

Case

Shan Teng Chen v. Attorney General of the United States

Case status

Decided

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OPINION PER CURIAM. Shan Teng Chan, a Chinese citizen, seeks review of a final order of the Board of Immigration Appeals (“BIA”). For the following reasons, we will deny the petition for review. I. Chen entered the United States without inspection in August 2004. In March 2005, he filed an application for asylum, withholding of removal, and protection under *278 the United Nations Convention Against Torture (“CAT”), claiming that he was persecuted under China’s family planning policy. Chen was later charged as removable under 8 U.S.C. § 1182 (a)(6)(A)(i). At his removal proceedings, Chen testified that after his wife gave birth to a child in 1991, she was forced to wear an IUD and to consent to periodic checkups. Chen assisted his wife in having the IUD removed in September 1994, and his wife became pregnant one month later. Chen’s wife went into hiding, but was discovered by the authorities and forced to have an abortion in 1995. Then, in February 2004, when Chen tried to intervene in his sister’s forced sterilization, family planning officials slapped him, pushed him away, and accused him of resisting the family planning laws. Chen did not indicate that he had any additional prob…

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