Amin v. Holder
**Credibility**
Substantial evidence supports the IJ’s adverse credibility finding because at least two of the inconsistencies cited by the IJ go to the heart of Amin’s claim, and the IJ relied on these inconsistencies after confronting Amin about them and weighing Amin’s explanations. First, Amin testified that her family had not had any problems with the Cameroonian government after Amin came to the United States. This testimony of Amin, however, was inconsistent with a letter from the Provincial Chairman of the Southern Cameroon National Council (“SCNC Letter”) that Amin included with her asylum application stating that after Amin left the country, security forces had come to her residence every week and that the government had arrested and detained Amin’s relatives. Second, Amin testified that when she was seventeen, the principal of her school called the police after Amin organized a student strike because the principal knew that Amin must have been involved, and that the phone call resulted in Amin’s arrest and abuse. This was inconsistent with Amin’s testimony detailing that, both before and after the strike and arrest, Amin was held in high esteem by those running the school.
http://www.ca9.uscourts.gov/datastore/memoranda/2010/03/10/05-74674.pdf
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