Wei Zhen is a native of China. He is seeking asylum and withholding of removal on the grounds that his wife was compelled to have 2 abortions, the first in November 1992 and the second in December 1998. At a physical checkup at her place of work in Dalien City, Liaoning Province, it was discovered that Wei's wife was pregnant. The birth control official told her that she was too young to be given permission to have a child because the Dalien City birth control regulation required that both parents be 25. At the time, Wei was over 25, but his wife was a few months short of the required age. The 2 begged for permission to have the child. They were told that if they had the child, his wife would be dismissed from her job. Wei and his wife earned low salaries, and his wife's income was about 50-6-% of their combined income. If they had to depend on his salary alone, it would have been hard to keep up with living expenses. So at the time he and his wife decided to go through with the abortion. The second abortion occurred 6 years later under. After the birth of a daughter in January 1997, Wei and his wife used various forms of birth control to comply with China's "one-child" policy. But his wife became pregnant, and her condition was discovered during a physical exam at her place of work on December 22, 1998. She was pressured to have an abortion, and immediately aborted the child. At the time, Wei was away working on a construction project and did not know about his wife's pregnancy. When he learned what had happened, he was upset because he felt she should have informed him of the situation before anything was done. He went to his wife's working unit and complain to the birth control supervisor that he should have been allowed to be by his wife's side taking care of her. He explained that at the time of the second abortion, he and his wife would have liked to have had another child, but hadn't attempted to because the authorities would have dismissed his wife from her job, refused to register the second child, and possibly forced one of them to undergo sterilization. Wei and his wife decided that it was best for them to leave China and seek asylum in the United States. They did not have visas to leave China and enter the United States, so they used Wei's cousin and his wife's name and passports to enter the U.S. on tourist visas with alias names.When they arrived in the U.S., Wei and his wife did not have authorization to work, but needed money to pay bills. They both used fake names to secure work without authorization. Wei worked as an Uber driver and his wife took a job as a waitress. One night, after a stressful week, Wei was out at a bar and had a little too much to drink. Someone made a comment to him that he should go back to China and he got upset and started a fight. Wei was arrested for assault, but the charges were dropped when the other person refused to press charges. When they applied for asylum, Wei and his wife did not disclose the fact that they had used an alias, worked without authorization or been arrested. Wei and his wife are now seeking asylum. He has called an attorney and will be meeting with the firm to discuss his case and to determine if he will secure them for representation.

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Oral arguments for Wei and his wife seeking asylum may include the following points 1 Forced Abortions due to Chinas Birth Control Policies Highlight ... View the full answer