13-986
Yang-Jiang v. Holder
BIA
A099 539 084
UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS
FOR THE SECOND CIRCUIT
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1 At a stated term of the United States Court of Appeals
2 for the Second Circuit, held at the Thurgood Marshall United
3 States Courthouse, 40 Foley Square, in the City of New York,
4 on the 24th day of April, two thousand fourteen.
5
6 PRESENT:
7 PIERRE N. LEVAL,
8 GUIDO CALABRESI,
9 JOSÉ A. CABRANES,
10 Circuit Judges.
11 _____________________________________
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13 ZHONG YI YANG-JIANG, AKA ZHONG YI
14 YANG,
15 Petitioner,
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17 v. 13-986
18 NAC
19 ERIC H. HOLDER, JR., UNITED STATES
20 ATTORNEY GENERAL,
21 Respondent.
22 _____________________________________
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24 FOR PETITIONER: Eric Y. Zheng, New York, New York.
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26 FOR RESPONDENT: Stuart F. Delery, Assistant Attorney
27 General; Russell J.E. Verby, Senior
28 Litigation Counsel; John D.
29 Williams, Trial Attorney, Office of
30 Immigration Litigation, United
31 States Department of Justice,
32 Washington, D.C.
1 UPON DUE CONSIDERATION of this petition for review of a
2 Board of Immigration Appeals (“BIA”) decision, it is hereby
3 ORDERED, ADJUDGED, AND DECREED that the petition for review
4 is DENIED.
5 Zhong Yi Yang-Jiang, a native and citizen of the
6 People’s Republic of China, seeks review of the February 27,
7 2013, decision of the BIA denying his motion to reopen. In
8 re Zhong Yi Yang-Jiang, No. A099 539 084 (B.I.A. Feb. 27,
9 2013). We assume the parties’ familiarity with the
10 underlying facts and procedural history of the case.
11 Because Yang-Jiang does not challenge the denial of sua
12 sponte reopening, we address only the denial of statutory
13 reopening.
14 The BIA’s denial of Yang-Jiang’s motion to reopen as
15 untimely was not an abuse of discretion. See Ali v.
16 Gonzales, 448 F.3d 515, 517 (2d Cir. 2006) (per curiam)
17 (reviewing denial of reopening for abuse of discretion). An
18 alien may file one motion to reopen, generally no later than
19 90 days after the date on which the final administrative
20 decision was rendered in the proceedings sought to be
21 reopened. 8 U.S.C. § 1229a(c)(7)(A), (C)(i); 8 C.F.R.
22 § 1003.2(c)(2). There is no dispute that Yang-Jiang’s 2012
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1 motion was untimely, because his final administrative order
2 was issued in 2008. See 8 U.S.C. § 1229a(c)(7)(C)(i); 8
3 C.F.R. § 1003.2(c)(2). The time limitation does not apply
4 to a motion to reopen if it is “based on changed
5 circumstances arising in the country of nationality or in
6 the country to which deportation has been ordered, if such
7 evidence is material and was not available and could not
8 have been discovered or presented at the previous hearing.”
9 8 C.F.R. § 1003.2(c)(3)(ii); see also 8 U.S.C.
10 § 1229a(c)(7)(C)(ii). But, as the BIA concluded, Yang-Jiang
11 failed to establish changed circumstances for members of
12 unregistered churches in China since his 2007 merits
13 hearing. See Jian Hui Shao v. Mukasey, 546 F.3d 138, 169
14 (2d Cir. 2008) (reviewing the BIA’s factual findings on
15 country conditions under substantial evidence standard).
16 Although reports from the U.S. Commission on
17 International Religious Freedom (“IRFC”) note an increase in
18 the harassment of unregistered-church members prior to and
19 during the 2008 Beijing Olympics, and during the 2011
20 “Jasmine Revolution,” they also observe a decrease in the
21 number of arrests and detentions following those surges, and
22 that the Chinese government then continued its systematic
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1 and intense suppression of unregistered churches. Indeed,
2 the repressive tactics described in the IRFC reports and
3 supplementary post-hearing evidence, including church raids,
4 the arrest and detention of members and leaders, and the
5 confiscation and destruction of property, also were
6 described in the U.S. State Department’s 1998 Profile of
7 Asylum Claims and 2000 and 2001 Country Reports, which
8 predate Yang-Jiang’s hearing. Substantial evidence
9 therefore supports the BIA’s finding that Yang-Jiang did not
10 establish changed conditions for Christians in China. See
11 id.
12 Yang-Jiang asserts that the BIA ignored evidence.
13 However, the BIA is not required to “expressly parse” each
14 piece of evidence, and, as discussed, the record supports
15 the BIA’s conclusion. Wei Guang Wang v. BIA, 437 F.3d 270,
16 273-75 (2d Cir. 2006).
17 Absent a showing of changed conditions in China, the
18 BIA did not abuse its discretion in denying his motion to
19 reopen as untimely. See 8 U.S.C. § 1229a(c)(7)(C)(i), (ii);
20 8 C.F.R. § 1003.2(c)(2), (3). Because that determination is
21 dispositive, we do not reach Yang-Jiang’s argument that the
22 BIA did not apply the correct standard in determining his
23 asylum eligibility.
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1 For the foregoing reasons, the petition for review is
2 DENIED. As we have completed our review, any stay of
3 removal that the Court previously granted in this petition
4 is VACATED, and any pending motion for a stay of removal in
5 this petition is DISMISSED as moot. Any pending request for
6 oral argument in this petition is DENIED in accordance with
7 Federal Rule of Appellate Procedure 34(a)(2), and Second
8 Circuit Local Rule 34.1(b).
9 FOR THE COURT:
10 Catherine O’Hagan Wolfe, Clerk
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