US Board of Immigration Appeals = FAIL
Sep. 23rd, 2008 12:03 amI don't usually post political, or even important, material here because I like to think of my LJ as being uninfluenced by outside, real-world sources other than my own insanity. Also, if you remember, I said I was going to post something that wasn't bitchy, whiny, or related to depression. Today, however, is not that day, because.
Oh my God. No words. NO WORDS. *froths with rage*
AG: Don't deport genital mutilation victim.
That someone in a theoretically enlightened and educated society could even think that a woman could be returned to a region or people practicing FGM "because her genitalia already had been mutilated [so] she had no basis to fear future persecution if returned to her home country," let alone say it in a formally issued legal document just... No. Again, no words! That the attorney general has to point out a basic failure of logic (not to mention ethics) to them boggles me. The good news is that Congress, for once, paid attention to letters like the one from Seton Hall Law School, and Mukasey seems to be pretty pissed off.
Still, seriously, what the fucking fuck is wrong with people?
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Oh my God. No words. NO WORDS. *froths with rage*
AG: Don't deport genital mutilation victim.
That someone in a theoretically enlightened and educated society could even think that a woman could be returned to a region or people practicing FGM "because her genitalia already had been mutilated [so] she had no basis to fear future persecution if returned to her home country," let alone say it in a formally issued legal document just... No. Again, no words! That the attorney general has to point out a basic failure of logic (not to mention ethics) to them boggles me. The good news is that Congress, for once, paid attention to letters like the one from Seton Hall Law School, and Mukasey seems to be pretty pissed off.
Still, seriously, what the fucking fuck is wrong with people?
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