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       Wang, who was born in 1986 in the Fujian Province, People’s Republic of China,

entered the United States on June 5, 2003, with a false passport. She told the airport

Department of Homeland Security (“DHS”) officer who interviewed her (in Mandarin)

that her parents arranged for her trip, which would cost them $60,000, and that her

parents wanted her to come to the United States “to earn money.”

       At the merits hearing on Wang’s application,held on October 5, 2004, Wang

testified in Mandarin, with the aid of a translator, that she had left China because her

parents had violated the family planning policy by giving birth to three children, and by

waiting only two years, rather than the required four years, before giving birth to their

second child. She testified that her parents were fined 20,000 RMB 1 by village officials

in January 1992, shortly after her father was forcibly sterilized, but that they were too

poor to pay. She also testified that the village cadre came by the house numerous times to




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