beyond these conversations of unknown content.. The balance of the record offers little evidence that she engaged in more than a perfunctory review of the facts of the case prior to the hearing. Counsel never collected available material testimony and documentary evidence, and never presented to the IJ the “basics” of his claim: that Zheng was forcibly sterilized, the significance of the large fine, that government persecution forced him to hide and drop out of school, and a legal argument that Lin qualified as a refugee on account of a protected status. Counsel’s unreasonable failure to investigate and present the factual and legal basis of Lin’s asylum claim would itself amount to ineffective assistance of counsel. Cf. Escobar-Grijalva v. INS, 206 F.3d 1331, 1335 (9th Cir.2000) (<HOLDING>), amended on other grounds by 213 F.3d 1221
holding that the sixth amendment right to counsel embodies the right to effective assistance of counsel holding a criminal defendant has the right to effective assistance of counsel during a plea process holding that attorney who was unprepared to argue and unknowledgeable about the facts of an asylum case could not have provided effective assistance of counsel recognizing that a criminal defendants right to counsel is the right to the effective assistance of counsel holding that a defendants waiver was invalid where he was required to choose between proceeding with unprepared counsel or no counsel