Jiamu Wang v. Immigration and Naturalization Service

Jiamu Wang, a native and citizen of the People’s Republic of China, petitions for review of a Board of Immigration Appeals (Board) order denying his application for asylum and withholding of deportation. We have jurisdiction pursuant to 8 U.S.C. § 1105a(a), as amended by the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996 § 309(c). We conclude that the Board did not commit reversible error, and we deny Wang’s petition for review.

I.

Around August 21, 1993, Wang, a forty-five-year-old male, entered the United States on a visitor’s visa and petitioned for asylum. The Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) denied Wang’s asylum petition in 1993 and again in 1995. Wang has renewed his asylum bid in these proceedings. His current petition for asylum and withholding of deportation rests upon his claim that he fears future persecution in China due to past political activities and because he escaped forced sterilization.

Wang alleges that during the summer of 1989 he was employed by the Hang Cheng Machine Electrical Equipment Co., in Changle City, Fujian Province. Upon learning that government authorities were using force to quell the Student Democratic…