Kui Rong Ma v. John Ashcroft, Attorney General

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• holding that it is inappropriate to defer to the agency’s interpretation of its governing statute when that interpretation leads to absurd results
• holding that it is inappropriate to defer to the agency's interpretation of its governing statute when that interpretation leads to absurd results
• discussing similar third trimester forced abortion in underage marriage, and citing numerous sources that the policy against early marriages and births is strictly enforced in Fujian Province
• rejecting and affording no deference to a legal interpretation by the BIA that “contravenes the statute and leads to absurd and wholly unacceptable results”
• discussing simi- lar third trimester forced abortion in underage marriage, and citing numerous sources that the policy against early marriages and births is strictly enforced in Fujian Prov- ince
• “The BIA and the courts have uniformly applied the statute’s protections to husbands whose wives have undergone abortions or sterilization procedures, as well as to the wives themselves.”

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