Opinion ID: 2999319
Heading Depth: 2
Heading Rank: 2

Heading: Irrelevant Facts and Evidence

Text: Petitioners next contend that the IJ relied on irrelevant facts and evidence in finding them incredible. They specifically address the IJ’s assertion that Yueng, by conceding that she and her husband have several siblings who have more than one child apiece, inadvertently showed that the onechild policy is not currently enforced “in her village, in her province.” We held in Zheng v. Gonzales, 409 F.3d 804 (7th Cir. 2005), that where the record provides no details about a petitioner’s nieces and nephews, “the childbearing histories of [a petitioner’s] siblings and in-laws have only limited relevance to her claim.” Id. at 810-11. The petitioners correctly point out that the record here does not reflect when Yueng’s nieces and nephews were born, so the IJ could not know whether her siblings were even subject at the time to the one-child policy. And even if they were, reports entered into the record reflect that Fujian follows a “one-and-a-half child policy” allowing couples to have a second child if the first is a girl, and that some couples in 10 No. 05-3245 Fujian receive official permission to have an additional child regardless. With regard to her husband’s siblings, several live in the United States where there obviously is no government mandate limiting one child per family. The IJ’s analysis on this point is again “unmoored from the record, based on nothing but the IJ’s personal speculation or conjecture.” Tabaku, 425 F.3d at 421.