Zhang v. Holder

11-443-ag Zhang v. Holder UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE SECOND CIRCUIT SUMMARY ORDER RULINGS BY SUMMARY ORDER DO NOT HAVE PRECEDENTIAL EFFECT. CITATION TO A SUMMARY ORDER FILED ON OR AFTER JANUARY 1, 2007, IS PERMITTED AND IS GOVERNED BY FEDERAL RULE OF APPELLATE PROCEDURE 32.1 AND THIS COURT’S LOCAL RULE 32.1.1. WHEN CITING A SUMMARY ORDER IN A DOCUMENT FILED WITH THIS COURT, A PARTY MUST CITE EITHER THE FEDERAL APPENDIX OR AN ELECTRONIC DATABASE (WITH THE NOTATION “SUMMARY ORDER”). A PARTY CITING A SUMMARY ORDER MUST SERVE A COPY OF IT ON ANY PARTY NOT REPRESENTED BY COUNSEL. 1 At a stated term of the United States Court of Appeals 2 for the Second Circuit, held at the Daniel Patrick Moynihan 3 United States Courthouse, 500 Pearl Street, in the City of 4 New York, on the 23rd day of July, two thousand twelve. 5 6 PRESENT: 7 DENNIS JACOBS, 8 Chief Judge, 9 JON O. NEWMAN, 10 PIERRE N. LEVAL, 11 Circuit Judges. 12 _______________________________________ 13 14 MING SHENG ZHU v. HOLDER, 10-4432-ag 15 A079 673 541 16 _______________________________________ 17 18 BEN CHEN v. HOLDER, 10-4718-ag 19 A072 473 754 20 _______________________________________ 21 22 EN CHEN, AKA YIN CHEN v. HOLDER, 10-4742-ag 23 A077 309 013 24 _______________________________________ 25 26 SAI YING CHEN v. HOLDER, 10-4997-ag 27 A098 775 949 28 _______________________________________ 02272012-11-20 1 2 ZU HUA LIU v. HOLDER, 10-5151-ag 3 A077 297 009 4 _______________________________________ 5 6 NAI YU JIANG v. HOLDER, 10-5154-ag 7 A078 745 496 8 _______________________________________ 9 10 WANG ZHANG, AKA WANG ZHENG v. HOLDER, 11-443-ag 11 A072 455 620 12 _______________________________________ 13 14 CHANG LONG UO, 15 AKA CHANG-LONG OU v. HOLDER, 11-464-ag 16 A076 505 684 17 _______________________________________ 18 19 WAN PING LIN, YAN QING ZHU v. HOLDER, 11-1638-ag 20 A070 892 381 21 A070 868 369 22 _______________________________________ 23 24 QING YOU CHEN v. HOLDER, 11-1961-ag 25 A073 173 328 26 _______________________________________ 27 28 UPON DUE CONSIDERATION of these petitions for review of 29 Board of Immigration Appeals (“BIA”) decisions, it is hereby 30 ORDERED, ADJUDGED, AND DECREED, that the petitions for 31 review are DENIED. 32 Each of these petitions challenges a decision of the 33 BIA denying a motion to reopen. The applicable standards of 34 review are well-established. See Jian Hui Shao v. Mukasey, 35 546 F.3d 138, 157-58, 168-69 (2d Cir. 2008). 02272012-11-20 2 1 Petitioners, all natives and citizens of China, filed 2 motions to reopen based on their claims that they fear 3 persecution because they have had one or more children in 4 violation of China’s population control program. For 5 largely the same reasons as this Court set forth in Jian Hui 6 Shao, 546 F.3d 138, we find no error in the BIA’s decisions. 7 See id. at 158-72. 8 Although the BIA may err in rejecting family planning 9 notices, such as those submitted in some of these cases, 10 solely based on a failure to authenticate pursuant to 11 8 C.F.R. § 1287.6, see Cao He Lin v. U.S. Dep’t of Justice, 12 428 F.3d 391, 403 (2d Cir. 2005), it does not abuse its 13 discretion in according diminished weight to notices that 14 have not been authenticated by any means, see Xiao Ji Chen 15 v. U.S. Dep’t of Justice, 471 F.3d 315, 341-42 (2d Cir. 16 2006). Regardless, remand to the BIA for consideration of 17 the family planning notices would be futile because the 18 notices merely referenced the family planning policy’s 19 mandatory sterilization requirement without any indication 20 that such sterilizations are performed by force. See Shunfu 21 Li v. Mukasey, 529 F.3d 141, 150 (2d Cir. 2008) (finding 22 that remand is futile when the Court can confidently 02272012-11-20 3 1 “predict that the agency would reach the same decision 2 absent the errors that were made” (internal quotation marks 3 and citations omitted)); see also Jian Hui Shao, 546 F.3d at 4 165, 172. 5 For the foregoing reasons, these petitions for review 6 are DENIED. As we have completed our review, any stay of 7 removal that the Court previously granted in these petitions 8 is VACATED, and any pending motion for a stay of removal in 9 these petitions is DISMISSED as moot. Any pending request 10 for oral argument in these petitions is DENIED in accordance 11 with Federal Rule of Appellate Procedure 34(a)(2), and 12 Second Circuit Local Rule 34.1(b). 13 FOR THE COURT: 14 Catherine O’Hagan Wolfe, Clerk 15 16 02272012-11-20 4