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Welcome to America Part 2 – Immigration Judge Uses Wikipedia to Deny Asylum
Oh sorry, maybe that should be “NOT Welcome to America” given the recent trend in immigration. The USCIS is fighting incredibly hard to apply the most restrictive approach to the Child Status Protection Act (CSPA)–that offers or has the promise Read More …
Being 'illegal' gay and from Iran with no hope of political asylum?
here is a link to some questions i had asked one of my close DREAMer friends, who is also gay and hails from Iran. his answers were quite insightful, and i hope to have some more people participate in these Read More …
Gay Iranian Seeks Asylum
< ![CDATA[ I was livid when I heard that Mehdi Kazemi, a gay teenager from Iran was being denied political asylum in the UK and then by a Dutch Court even after he could prove substantial risk to his life. Read More …
The Politics of Waiting – Asylum
There’s a really good discussion on asylum circulating one of my academic listserves. Not many know that I study critical geography and subaltern studies, and there is some space in those fields to speak about immigration. The perspectives and philosophy Read More …
Sarjina Emy – The ICE strikes again – Holding innocent youth in detention centers
This is plain ludicrous. Why are we punishing children and young adults for the alleged transgressions of their parents? What sort of justice is this?! 19-year old Sarjina Emy, who was brought here illegally when she was four years old, Read More …