Guang Ming Chen Feng Hai Chen v. Immigration and Naturalization Service

91 F.3d 151 NOTICE: Ninth Circuit Rule 36-3 provides that dispositions other than opinions or orders designated for publication are not precedential and should not be cited except when relevant under the doctrines of law of the case, res judicata, or collateral estoppel. Guang Ming CHEN; Feng Hai Chen, Petitioners, v. IMMIGRATION AND NATURALIZATION SERVICE, Respondent. No. 95-70709. United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit. Submitted June 10, 1996. * Decided July 5, 1996. Before: HUG, Chief Judge, SCHROEDER and HAWKINS, Circuit Judges. 1 MEMORANDUM ** 2 Petitioners Feng Hai Chen and Guang Ming Chen, natives and citizens of China, petition for review of the final order of deportation of the Board of Immigration Appeals ("the BIA"). They seek asylum under 8 U.S.C. § 1158 (a) based on their pro-democratic political beliefs, their involvement in a local pro-democracy organization in their native village of Taishan, Guangdong Province, and their participation in a June 1989 anti-government demonstration there. Fearing they faced arrest for their participation in the demonstration, petitioners obtained travel documents and left China, eventually making their way to the United…