Mei Dan Liu v. John D. Ashcroft, Attorney General of the United States

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• noting that although the petitioner was a minor, she was \near the age of majority -- she was sixteen\ and thus discounting the significance of her age in that case
• denying asylum on the basis that the record did not reflect that the govern ment imputed Falun Gong membership to the petitioner
• denying asylum on the basis that the record did not reflect that the government imputed Falun Gong membership to the petitioner
• two-day detention in which petitioner endured pushing and hair pulling followed by search of her home does not compel finding of persecution
• “age can be a critical factor in the adjudication of asylum claims and may bear heavily on the question of whether an applicant was persecuted or whether she holds a well-founded fear of future persecution”
• “[A]ge can be a critical factor in the adjudication of asylum claims and may bear heavily on the question of whether an applicant was persecuted or whether she holds a well-founded fear of persecution.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).