Guanglie Cui v. Attorney General of the United States

Type

Opinion of the Court

Per curiam

Yes — no individual author

Filed

Dec. 15, 2011

Case

Guanglie Cui v. Attorney General of the United States

Case status

Decided

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OPINION PER CURIAM. Guangile Cui seeks review of a decision of the Board of Immigration Appeals (“BIA”) denying his application for asylum, withholding of removal, and protection under the Convention Against Torture (“CAT”). For the following reasons, we will deny his petition for review. I. Cui, a citizen of China, arrived in the United States in June 1998. Ten years later, he filed an application for asylum, withholding of removal, and protection under the CAT based on his fear of persecution by the Chinese government as a result of assistance he provided to North Korean refugees. The application was transferred to an immigration court and Cui was placed in removal proceedings on the basis that he was present in the United States without authorization, a charge that he conceded. At a hearing before an Immigration Judge (“IJ”), Cui testified that he helped North Korean refugees at the request of his wife’s pastor, who headed an underground church. Between January and April 1998, Cui, an employee of a government-owned bus company, used his employer’s bus on three occasions to smuggle 10 North Korean refugees into China. On May 2, 1998, police officers came to his home. Cui was not …

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