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Mar. 4th, 2005 10:43 amWednesday, there was a quick hot flurry of outrage about how the DHS treats immigrants applying for political asylum.
http://www.livejournal.com/users/matociquala/455096.html
Not universal outrage, of course. Outrage is never universal. Some folks commented that monitoring was better than some other stuff the DHS has done to people. (Yeah. So?) Others thought it was right and appropriate for the government to be concerned about people, some of whom might be criminals, dodging hearings and turning into illegal immigrants.
Meanwhile, the DHS was trying to deport Obain Attouoman to the Ivory Coast. He teaches at a Boston high school. He missed an immigration hearing -- apparently the date was hand-written on a form, and he read it wrong. He appealed, but the DHS refused to hear his case on the merits, and was proceeding with the deportation until Senator Kerry introduced a private bill to keep him in the country and hear his case for asylum. http://www.boston.com/news/globe/editorial_opinion/editorials/articles/2005/03/04/justice_for_an_immigrant/
This is fairly big news, locally, but I think it's just a Boston thing. "Fenway students have real-life exercise in civics to save their teacher."
I've dealt with bureaucracies before. I've been very lucky that the errors have only been uncomfortable, or nuisances, or expensive, or delays. When my life, or that of someone I cared about, depended on people getting the paperwork right, they got the paperwork right.
http://www.livejournal.com/users/matociquala/455096.html
Not universal outrage, of course. Outrage is never universal. Some folks commented that monitoring was better than some other stuff the DHS has done to people. (Yeah. So?) Others thought it was right and appropriate for the government to be concerned about people, some of whom might be criminals, dodging hearings and turning into illegal immigrants.
Meanwhile, the DHS was trying to deport Obain Attouoman to the Ivory Coast. He teaches at a Boston high school. He missed an immigration hearing -- apparently the date was hand-written on a form, and he read it wrong. He appealed, but the DHS refused to hear his case on the merits, and was proceeding with the deportation until Senator Kerry introduced a private bill to keep him in the country and hear his case for asylum. http://www.boston.com/news/globe/editorial_opinion/editorials/articles/2005/03/04/justice_for_an_immigrant/
This is fairly big news, locally, but I think it's just a Boston thing. "Fenway students have real-life exercise in civics to save their teacher."
I've dealt with bureaucracies before. I've been very lucky that the errors have only been uncomfortable, or nuisances, or expensive, or delays. When my life, or that of someone I cared about, depended on people getting the paperwork right, they got the paperwork right.
