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WEINONG LIN v. HOLDER

Docket No. 12-179-ag.

763 F.3d 244 (2014)

WEINONG LIN, Petitioner, v. Eric H. HOLDER, JR., United States Attorney General, Respondent.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided: August 19, 2014.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Gary J. Yerman , New York, NY, for Petitioner.

Margaret Kuehne Taylor ( Stuart Delery and David V. Bernal , on the brief), United States Department of Justice, Washington, DC, for Respondent.

Before: JACOBS, CALABRESI and POOLER, Circuit Judges.

CALABRESI, Circuit Judge:

This case concerns whether political activity first undertaken in the United States amounts to "changed circumstances" for purposes of the asylum provision of the Immigration and Nationality Act ("INA"), 8 U.S.C. § 1158. Weinong Lin, a native and citizen of China who entered the United States as a non-immigrant in 1999, avows that he fled China because of his experience with "autocracy and corruption" there, Appellant's Br. at 5, that...

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