Chern Yang v. Immigration & Naturalization Service

50 F.3d 19 NOTICE: Ninth Circuit Rule 36-3 provides that dispositions other than opinions or orders designated for publication are not precedential and should not be cited except when relevant under the doctrines of law of the case, res judicata, or collateral estoppel. Chern YANG, Petitioner, v. IMMIGRATION & NATURALIZATION SERVICE, Respondent. No. 93-70733. United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit. Submitted March 13, 1995. Decided March 15, 1995. Before: GOODWIN, CANBY and T.G. NELSON, Circuit Judges. 1 MEMORANDUM ** 2 Chern Yang, a citizen of Taiwan, petitions for review of a Board of Immigration Appeals ("BIA") decision denying Yang's requests for political asylum under 8 U.S.C. Sec. 1158 (a) and withholding of deportation under 8 U.S.C. Sec. 1253 (h). Because substantial evidence supports the BIA's holding and the BIA applied the correct law, we deny the petition for review. I. 3 The basic facts of the case are not in dispute. After attending a military college at the expense of his government, Yang began a long-term commitment to serve as an officer in the Taiwan army. He worked for six years as a journalist/censor in the army and in 1980 travelled to the United…