United States Domestic Policies and Chinese Immigrants: Where Should Judges Draw the Lines When Granting Political Asylum

This article will discuss the history of China’s family planning policy, including an analysis of the present rewards and penalties used to implement that policy. Following will be a section on United States immigration policy and which domestic and international issues influence it. Finally, the problems faced by U.S. immigration judges in implementing the government’s newly promulgated policies will be reviewed, with special attention to the factors which judges may look at when attempting to make a fair and rational decision in asylum cases.