United States First Circuit

Petition for review of a BIA decision finding petitioner removable under the Immigration and Nationality Act and denying petitioner's applications for asylum, withholding of removal, and protection under the Convention Against Torture (CAT) is denied, where: 1) substantial evidence supported the Immigration Judge's (IJ) finding, adopted by the BIA, that petitioner lacked credibility in asserting that officials hit him and that he went into hiding following his wife's forced abortion; 2) the IJ had an ample basis for concluding that petitioner was not a sincere adherent of Falun Gong; and 3) petitioner does not explain why it is "more likely than not" that he would be tortured, as CAT protection requires.

Appellate Information

• Decided 04/22/2013
• Published 04/22/2013

Judges

• LYNCH

Court

• United States First Circuit

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