Neng Long Wang v. Alberto Gonzales, Attorney General of the United States Michael Chertoff, Secretary of Department of Homeland Security

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• observing that alleged persecution suffered by alien’s parents was not dispositive of alien’s asylum claim because “Wang must have suffered from persecution and the persecution must have been ‘on account of’ one of the five statutory bases for granting relief”
• upholding Board’s determination that child petitioner, who alleged past persecution based on the forced sterilization of his mother as well as based on other government action against his family, was not eligible for asylum based on his family’s past political persecution

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