Jie Cui v. Eric H. Holder Jr.

How courts have described this case

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• holding that the petitioner “waived any objections” to the denial of withholding of removal or CAT relief by not addressing either issue in his brief
• holding that the petitioner’s “ability to travel [abroad], his lack of efforts to then enter the United States, and his voluntary decision to return to China … undermine[d] his assertions that he feared persecution” and supported an adverse credibility determination
• stating that a petitioner waives an argument for CAT relief if it is not raised in the opening brief
• holding that the petitioner’s “ability 2 to travel to Mexico, his lack of efforts to then enter the United States, and his voluntary decision to return to China . . . undermine[d] his assertions that he feared persecution” and supported an adverse credibility determination
• noting that the written statement failed to mention a “significant” allegation
• “Because Cui does not address withholding or CAT relief in his brief, he waived any objections to the denial of these requests.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).