Election 2008: What’s At Stake?

You might think that immigrants fleeing persecution in their home countries would face a fair system, but News 21’s Mira Jang found things to be radically different in a recent cover story for the Los Angeles CityBeat.

While some judges deny asylum in almost every case, others grant asylum even in the shakiest cases. From the story:

Immigration lawyers, judges, and advocates expressed frustration over a system that they say operates against the intended purpose of the asylum process. Instead of awarding deserving asylum-seekers the protection they need from persecution in their home countries, many immigration judges, they say, violate the process with their personal beliefs, unprofessional temperaments, and intellectual incompetence.

Go read the rest here.

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