Land of the free, home of the brave...
Just don't ask us to protect the unborn;
Denver, CO (LifeNews.com) -- A Chinese woman living in the United States who fears a deportation to China would result in a forced abortion or sterilization lost her bid for asylum. A federal appeals court ruled that Xiu Mei Wei did not present enough evidence in her case for the court to confirm those fears would materialize upon her return.
The 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled last Friday against Wei's request to re-open her case.
The three judge panel declined to re-open her case even though Wei is pregnant a fourth time and China's family planning policies prevent women from having any more than one child.
According to an AP report, Wei had a temporary visa that expired in April 1997. She stayed in the United States and eventually applied for asylum in November 2002 when she became pregnant with her third child.
The appeals court sided with an immigration judge and the Board of Immigration Appeals, who both ruled that Wei did not file her asylum request within one year of having arrived in the U.S., as required by law.
The court also ruled that she failed to show how her circumstances made it so she couldn't comply with the time requirement.
In the application, Wei's local attorney, Lorance Hockert, filed a formal notice indicating population control officials in her hometown of Changle City in Fijian Province sent a notice to her mother.
The notice indicated that Wei and her husband would both be forcibly sterilized if she didn't have an abortion of the child upon her return to China.
AP also indicated Wei provided proof in the asylum application of her sister-in-law undergoing a forced abortion and sterilization when she became pregnant with her third child.
For some reason this bit of poetry comes to mind;
The 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled last Friday against Wei's request to re-open her case.
The three judge panel declined to re-open her case even though Wei is pregnant a fourth time and China's family planning policies prevent women from having any more than one child.
According to an AP report, Wei had a temporary visa that expired in April 1997. She stayed in the United States and eventually applied for asylum in November 2002 when she became pregnant with her third child.
The appeals court sided with an immigration judge and the Board of Immigration Appeals, who both ruled that Wei did not file her asylum request within one year of having arrived in the U.S., as required by law.
The court also ruled that she failed to show how her circumstances made it so she couldn't comply with the time requirement.
In the application, Wei's local attorney, Lorance Hockert, filed a formal notice indicating population control officials in her hometown of Changle City in Fijian Province sent a notice to her mother.
The notice indicated that Wei and her husband would both be forcibly sterilized if she didn't have an abortion of the child upon her return to China.
AP also indicated Wei provided proof in the asylum application of her sister-in-law undergoing a forced abortion and sterilization when she became pregnant with her third child.
For some reason this bit of poetry comes to mind;
...“Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!”...
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!”...
Guess someone should chisel in the addition, "But if they're pregnant or want to be, YOU can keep 'em!"
1 comment:
Responding to your post on my blog.
You have no idea how it feels like to live in Canada. When i came to Canada 4 years ago the first bill i saw becoming law was Bill C38 which legalized 'Gay Marriage' with my own eyes i saw catholic bishops being dragged to human right courts.
I have done my beast as a Catholic to fight against this. What i find most hurtsome is that many Catholics think that as long as my family is not homosexual how does it affect me. I often here form Catholics that oh but they (homosexuals) are good people and why should they not be allowed to get married. I have explained so many times only to be called a fundamental. I have explained how this homosexual agenda is being forced on kids in schools only to be told by Catholics that i am being hateful. I have now adopted what I call the Lot mission. I am going to save my immediate family pack my things. shake the dust of my feet and leave before the fire and brimstone come haling down on Canada.
I have told many Canadian catholics that Obama is the worst thing that can happen to North America and the world especially becasue of his FOCA and anti life stand. Only to be told that health care and the economy is more important and that I should not be so fundamental, this too my close family. All I can do now is pray.
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