Jianli Chen v. Holder

How courts have described this case

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• holding that BIA could rely on a form customarily prepared by Border Patrol agents in supporting adverse credibility determination because “[i]t is normally enough if the IJ reasonably finds a proffered piece of evidence to be reliable and its use to be fundamentally fair”
• explaining that reversal is appropriate under a substantial evidence standard “only if the record is such as to compel a reasonable factfinder to reach a contrary determination”
• stating that because the “trial judge sees and hears the witnesses at first hand and is in a unique position to evaluate their credibility,” we should honor his or her “on-the-spot judgments”
• discussing IJ's - 16 - prerogative to make determinations about which evidentiary documents — and which statements within them — should be given weight
• \[W]e will reverse only if the record is such as to compel a reasonable factfinder to reach a contrary determination.\
• reversal is appropriate under a substantial evidence standard “only if the record is such as to compel a reasonable factfinder to reach a contrary determination.”

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