Opinion ID: 2747546
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Heading Rank: 2

Heading: Meng’s Immigration Hearing

Text: On September 16, 2008, Meng was charged as subject to removal for having overstayed her visa. See 8 U.S.C. § 1182(a)(7)(A)(i)(I). At an October 1, 2009 hearing before the IJ, Meng pursued her claim for relief from removal by testifying to the persecution alleged in her application. She also testified to her job responsibilities as a public security officer, a position she had held for 22 years. Meng stated that, in that capacity, she oversaw approximately 1,100 households, and that her duties included reporting all pregnant women to China’s family planning office, including women pregnant in violation of state 4 limitations. Meng understood that when she reported a policy‐violating woman to authorities, that woman would be punished, typically by being forced to undergo an abortion or sterilization. Indeed, she testified to having seen such women dragged away forcibly by the police. Nevertheless, Meng voluntarily continued to serve as a security officer and to make her reports, although she sometimes advised women whom she would report as being pregnant in violation of family planning policy to go into hiding or to flee.