Boonthue VONGSAKDY, Petitioner, v. IMMIGRATION & NATURALIZATION SERVICE, Respondent

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• granting humanitarian asylum to applicant who was placed in a labor camp, permanently injured, denied adequate food, and subjected to Communist “reeducation” program
• humanitarian asylum based on the severity of past persecution is “reserved for rare situations of ‘atrocious’ persecution”
• humanitarian asylum is “reserved for rare situations of atrocious persecution” (citation and internal quotation marks omitted)

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