Ai Feng Yuan v. United States Department of Justice, Song Qi Huang v. United States Department of Justice

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• holding that a parent or parent-in-law of a person persecuted under a coercive family planning policy is not per se as entitled to relief under IIRIRA § 601(a) as those di rectly victimized themselves
• holding that an alien who was fired as a result of his daughter-in-law’s violation of a family planning law was not harmed to the level of persecution when there was “no evidence that he was barred from getting another position, or even that he looked”
• noting 7 the “canon of statutory construction that requires us to reconcile a statute’s plain language with 8 its purpose”

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