C+S write letters to CIS
by Senators Santorum, Kennedy and Brownback to the Bureau of
Citizenship and Immigration Services Director Eduardo Aguirre
cc:ed to Under Secretary Asa Hutchinson regarding Malik Jarno, a
mentally retarded Guinean orphan, for your reference. This
letter follows individual correspondence on Malik's plight sent
by a total of thirteen lawmakers, Amnesty International members
and the ARC, a national association for the mentally retarded.
We are not retarded but we equally deserve attention.
The thirteen other lawmakers who have written to the Department
of Homeland Security are the following: Chaka Fattah (D-PA),
Frank Wolf (R-VA), Pete Sessions (R-TX) and ten members of the
Congressional Human Rights Caucus, Caucus Chair Tom Lantos (D-CA)
and members Christopher H. Smith (R-NJ), Todd Platts (R-PA),
Donald M. Payne (D-NJ), Dennis J. Kucinch (D-OH), John Conyers
Jr. (D-MI), Betsy McCollum (D-MI), Barbara Lee (D-CA), Sheila
Jackson Lee (D-TX) and Elijah E. Cummings (D-MD). All have urged
redress in Malik's unique plight. I thank you for your
consideration. Christopher Nugent, Holland & Knight LLP Washington, D.C.
