Case Name: JINXIA CHEN, Petitioner, v. Jefferson B. SESSIONS, III, United States Attorney General, Respondent
Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 2017-08-09
Citations: 694 F. App'x 53
Docket Number: 14-736
Parties: JINXIA CHEN, Petitioner, v. Jefferson B. SESSIONS, III, United States Attorney General, Respondent.
Judges: PRESENT: JON 0. NEWMAN, DENNIS JACOBS, PIERRE N. LEVAL, Circuit Judges.
Reporter: West's Federal Appendix
Volume: 694
Pages: 53–54

Head Matter:
JINXIA CHEN, Petitioner, v. Jefferson B. SESSIONS, III, United States Attorney General, Respondent.
14-736
United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.
August 9, 2017
FOR PETITIONER: Jan Allen Reiner, New York, New York.
FOR RESPONDENT: Joyce R. Branda, Acting Assistant Attorney General; Eric W. Marsteller, Senior Litigation Counsel; Rachel L. Browning, Trial Attorney, Office of Immigration Litigation, United States Department of Justice, Washington, D.C.
PRESENT: JON 0. NEWMAN, DENNIS JACOBS, PIERRE N. LEVAL, Circuit Judges.

Opinion:
SUMMARY ORDER
Petitioner Jinxia Chen, a native and citizen of China, seeks review of a February 11, 2014, decision of the BIA denying her motion to reopen as untimely and number barred. In re Jinxia Chen, No. [ AXXX XXX XXX ] (B.I.A. Feb. 11, 2014). We assume the parties' familiarity with the underlying facts and procedural history in this case.
The applicable standards of review are well established. See Jian Hui Shao v. Mukasey, 546 F.3d 138, 168-69 (2d Cir. 2008). Chen moved to reopen her exclusion proceedings to present new evidence in support of her claimed fear of persecution based on the births of her children in the United States purportedly in violation of China's population control program.
It is undisputed that Chen's motion to reopen was untimely and number barred because it was her fifth motion to reopen filed more than seventeen years after her deportation order became final. See 8 U.S.C. § 1229a(c)(7)(A), (C)(i); 8 C.F.R. § 1003.2(c)(2). These time and numerical limitations do not apply if the motion is to reopen proceedings in order to apply for asylum "based on changed country conditions arising in the country of nationality or the country to which removal has been ordered, if such evidence is material and was not available and would not have been discovered or presented at the previous proceeding." 8 U.S.C. § 1229a(c)(7)(C)(ii); see also 8 C.F.R. § 1003.2(c)(3)(ii).
For largely the same reasons set forth in Jian Hui Shao, we find no error in the agency's determination that Chen failed to demonstrate materially changed country conditions excusing the untimely and number barred filing of her motion. See 546 F.3d at 159-66, 169-73 (noting that country conditions evidence from 1998 to 2007 indicated that enforcement of family planning policy was generally lax in Fujian Province with isolated reports of force being used); see also In re S-Y-G-, 24 I. & N. Dec. 247, 253 (B.I.A. 2007) ("In determining whether evidence accompanying a motion to reopen demonstrates a material change in country conditions that would justify reopening, [the BIA] eompare[s] the evidence of country conditions submitted with the motion to those that existed at the time of the merits hearing below."). Chen also failed to demonstrate a material change in the economic penalties used to enforce China's population control policy given evidence that heavy fines have been levied for violations since before her 1995 hearing. See In re S-Y-G-, 24 I. & N. Dec. at 257 ("Change that is incremental or incidental does not meet the regulatory requirements for late motions.").
For the foregoing reasons, the petition for review is DENIED.