The federal appeals court in Atlanta says a Chinese immigrant can continue to appeal a deportation order because of the likelihood she will be sterilized if returned to China. Mei Ya Zhang of New York City, who entered the country illegally in 2003, said that since being ordered deported nine months later she had married and had two daughters, putting her at odds with China's one-child policy. The Board of Immigration Appeals ruled Zhang waited too long to ask that her asylum petition be reconsidered. The 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ordered the BIA Tuesday to reconsider. A three-judge panel said Zhang showed changed conditions in China, namely that the sterilization policy was being more strictly enforced in her native Fujian Province.
(Associated Press)
(Associated Press)
