Chen v. Holder

Ct. of Appeals lacked jurisdiction to consider alien’s appeal of Bd.’s denial of her asylum application based on claim that Chinese govt. subjected her to persecution on account of her political opinion where she registered protest that govt. had taken her business without just compensation, since asylum application was filed more than one year after her entry into U.S. Fact that alien did not speak English, did not understand applicable law and lacked money to hire attorney did not require different result. Moreover, with respect to alien’s withholding of removal request, IJ could properly find that govt.’s harm to alien by forcibly removing her from her business and subjecting her to three-day arrest was not based on her expression of political opinion, but rather, was based on her personal dispute with Chinese govt.