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Please share this. Our government is arresting asylum seekers who are asking for protection from harm, who have no criminal history, for absolutely no reason.
My name is Caleb Arring, I am an immigration attorney based in San Francisco, California. I work predominantly on affirmative asylum cases.
Today, February 8, 2018, my client was scheduled for an 8:30am asylum interview. We arrived for his interview on time. We were called in shortly before 9am. His interview went on for about 2 hours. As with all asylum interviews, he was required to discuss the traumas he had experienced in his home country and explain why he is seeking protection in the United States. A traumatizing process, but one that our government requires in order to determine whether or not someone is eligible for asylum.
At the end of the 2 hour re-traumatizing interview the asylum officer explained to my client how he could come back in a few weeks and pick up his decision. This is standard at all asylum interviews. Decisions are not made on the spot.
We got up to leave the office, with the asylum officer leading the way. She stopped at the door, as someone was outside and had said something to her. She said we need to wait a minute someone has a couple more questions for you. This was alarming. I’ve never in the 5 plus years I’ve been attending asylum interviews had this happen. But I tried to shrug it off, though I didn’t have much time to. Less than a minute later the door opened, someone who I assume is a supervisor at the asylum office came in with 3-4 Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Officers. The ICE Officers put handcuffs on my client and said they were taking him into custody. I asked why. At first they wouldn’t even answer me. I demanded that they tell me why he was being taken into custody and they told me it is because he is in the country illegally because he overstayed his visa. I stated that he was an applicant for asylum with a pending application at the asylum office. The officer said, not anymore, we just arrested him so the asylum office doesn’t have jurisdiction anymore.
Note that most people applying for asylum are not in a valid legal status. Even if they were in valid visitor status or student status or on a work visa, many people lose status before their interview. The current wait time is about 2.5-3 years to get scheduled for an interview. This means that even if you were in valid status when you filed, your valid status would most likely end before your interview happens.
Additionally, many people who apply for asylum never have valid status to begin with. Some people enter illegally because they are fleeing their country to save their life, and there is no time or opportunity to get a valid visa.
The idea is that if you are in danger in your home country, but you come to the United States and you follow the rules (file an application for asylum and don’t break the law while you are here) you can ask the United States Government to protect you. This is meant to be a safe process. One where the applicant doesn’t have to fear being arrested. If you are to be a afraid of arrest, why would you ask for help? Why not keep hiding?
My client was then transported to holding, which is in a different building. I went to the building where I was told I would be given more information about why he was arrested. But when I got there, again they only told me that he was in the country illegally and that is why he was arrested.
My client has NEVER been arrested in the United States. He has a completely clean record. He has a social security number. He works and contributes to our society. He has a United States Citizen Child. His wife and other child both have green cards. He has three siblings who have green cards.
The government will give me NO information about why he was taken into custody during what is meant to be a safe and non-adversarial process. My suspicion is that he was taken into custody because he is from Sudan. Sudan was one of the original countries on the travel ban. I believe the government is targeting asylum seekers from the countries that they tried to ban from entry into the United States. Obviously, I don’t know this to be a fact, but I can see no other reason why an asylum seeker with no criminal history would be arrested during his interview.
My name is Caleb Arring, I am an immigration attorney based in San Francisco, California. I work predominantly on affirmative asylum cases.
Today, February 8, 2018, my client was scheduled for an 8:30am asylum interview. We arrived for his interview on time. We were called in shortly before 9am. His interview went on for about 2 hours. As with all asylum interviews, he was required to discuss the traumas he had experienced in his home country and explain why he is seeking protection in the United States. A traumatizing process, but one that our government requires in order to determine whether or not someone is eligible for asylum.
At the end of the 2 hour re-traumatizing interview the asylum officer explained to my client how he could come back in a few weeks and pick up his decision. This is standard at all asylum interviews. Decisions are not made on the spot.
We got up to leave the office, with the asylum officer leading the way. She stopped at the door, as someone was outside and had said something to her. She said we need to wait a minute someone has a couple more questions for you. This was alarming. I’ve never in the 5 plus years I’ve been attending asylum interviews had this happen. But I tried to shrug it off, though I didn’t have much time to. Less than a minute later the door opened, someone who I assume is a supervisor at the asylum office came in with 3-4 Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Officers. The ICE Officers put handcuffs on my client and said they were taking him into custody. I asked why. At first they wouldn’t even answer me. I demanded that they tell me why he was being taken into custody and they told me it is because he is in the country illegally because he overstayed his visa. I stated that he was an applicant for asylum with a pending application at the asylum office. The officer said, not anymore, we just arrested him so the asylum office doesn’t have jurisdiction anymore.
Note that most people applying for asylum are not in a valid legal status. Even if they were in valid visitor status or student status or on a work visa, many people lose status before their interview. The current wait time is about 2.5-3 years to get scheduled for an interview. This means that even if you were in valid status when you filed, your valid status would most likely end before your interview happens.
Additionally, many people who apply for asylum never have valid status to begin with. Some people enter illegally because they are fleeing their country to save their life, and there is no time or opportunity to get a valid visa.
The idea is that if you are in danger in your home country, but you come to the United States and you follow the rules (file an application for asylum and don’t break the law while you are here) you can ask the United States Government to protect you. This is meant to be a safe process. One where the applicant doesn’t have to fear being arrested. If you are to be a afraid of arrest, why would you ask for help? Why not keep hiding?
My client was then transported to holding, which is in a different building. I went to the building where I was told I would be given more information about why he was arrested. But when I got there, again they only told me that he was in the country illegally and that is why he was arrested.
My client has NEVER been arrested in the United States. He has a completely clean record. He has a social security number. He works and contributes to our society. He has a United States Citizen Child. His wife and other child both have green cards. He has three siblings who have green cards.
The government will give me NO information about why he was taken into custody during what is meant to be a safe and non-adversarial process. My suspicion is that he was taken into custody because he is from Sudan. Sudan was one of the original countries on the travel ban. I believe the government is targeting asylum seekers from the countries that they tried to ban from entry into the United States. Obviously, I don’t know this to be a fact, but I can see no other reason why an asylum seeker with no criminal history would be arrested during his interview.
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There is no recovery for someone falsely accused - life and career are gone. Is there no such thing any longer as Due Process? --President Trump
Central Park 5 had their first trial in August 1990. On May 1st, 1989 Trump paid $85k to run this full page ad:
They were (wrongfully) convicted and later exonerated, but spent between 6 and 13 years in prison.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_Park_jogger_case
Central Park 5 had their first trial in August 1990. On May 1st, 1989 Trump paid $85k to run this full page ad:
They were (wrongfully) convicted and later exonerated, but spent between 6 and 13 years in prison.
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After the city announced in June 2014 that they would settle with the defendants for more than $40 million, Trump wrote an opinion article for the New York Daily News. He called the settlement "a disgrace" and said that the group's guilt was still likely: "Settling doesn't mean innocence.
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In October 2016, when Trump campaigned to be president, he declared that the Central Park Five were guilty and stated that their convictions should never have been vacated.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_Park_jogger_case
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