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Senate may take action for HR 418 on 4/6/05
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asluser said:Senate May take action for HR 418 on 4/6/05. For our asylees' sake, I wish it could pass with removing the cap for asylees.
http://www.aila.org/contentViewer.aspx?bc=10,3080,5940,9002
CONSEQUENCES OF REAL IDasluser said:
Insurmountable Hurdles for Asylum-Seekers and Others (Section 101)
This legislation would encourage the denial of asylum or other protection to:
• A Soviet Jew who was beaten and robbed by police, if he can’t prove that prejudice was his
persecutors’ primary motive.
• A Tibetan woman who was raped by government officials, and exhibited a detached affect during
her asylum hearing when retelling the story.
• A Senegalese woman who fled certain genital mutilation, if she cannot obtain a document proving
that the operation was about to occur.
• A Syrian asylum-seeker who tells the immigration inspector that she fears for her life if returned,
but who tells the asylum officer that she fears for her life and her children’s lives if returned.
• A battered immigrant woman who testified that she came to the United States in May 2002 when in
fact her documents show she entered in late April 2002.
The legislation broadly extends the same harsh evidentiary and credibility requirements that it imposes
on asylum-seekers to other applications for relief, including withholding of removal and cancellation of
removal. It makes a judge’s denial of relief based on the lack of documentary evidence immune from
judicial reversal, and likewise makes discretionary judgments immune from judicial review.
Shotgun Deportations and Denial of Constitutional Rights (Section 105)
This legislation would deny:
• Federal court review for a Haitian asylum-seeker who enters the US without papers, is detained and
referred to an asylum officer for a credible fear interview, and issued a negative credibility finding
by the immigration judge.
• A single father of three from Iceland the opportunity to challenge his green card denial, which was
based on subjective and legal errors by the judge, by restricting federal court review to pure
questions of law and Constitutional claims.
• A Guatemalan woman seeking asylum the right to remain in the U.S. until her case is finally
decided, by eliminating stays of removal—sending her back to her persecutors.
Complicated, Restrictive, and Expensive Driver’s License Requirements (Title II)asluser said:
The REAL ACT ID legislation would deny driver’s licenses to:
• A U.S. citizen whose utility company won’t verify to the DMV employee that they issued a specific
bill on a specific date.
• U.S. “nationals” who are not citizens (e.g. American Samoans, Swain’s Islanders).
• Marshall Islanders.
• American Indians born in Canada.
• An immigrant with temporary protected status whose work authorization was extended, but who
hasn’t yet received the paperwork from USCIS.
• A naturalized U.S. citizen whose “immigration status” hasn’t yet been updated in the notoriously
out of date USCIS computer system.
• A Central American refugee who applied for relief under NACARA decades ago, but hasn’t yet
been processed for her green card and has no updated “proof” of her pending status.
• Applicants for non-immigrant visas already in the United States, including victims of trafficking (T
visa) and victims of crime (U visa).
• People who have been “paroled” (a technical immigration term that permits entry) into the United
States (i.e. Cuban parolees before they apply for Cuban adjustment), as well as people who have
been granted withholding of removal or other forms of humanitarian relief.
• Undocumented immigrants in the states that to date allow people to get driver’s licenses regardless
of immigration status, because these states believe it enhances public safety to have all drivers
licensed.
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I waited 12 years for my green card so I also suffered. Justice for all or no justice at all!samoel said:You forgot removing the f@$%# CAP but anyways it doesn't matter to you cuz you already have the GC....
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shamshon said:I waited 12 years for my green card so I also suffered. Justice for all or no justice at all!
I don't doubt that you suffered for a second. Justice for all who deserve asylum
But this bill will make it harder for those who "deserve" asylum.samoel said:I don't doubt that you suffered for a second. Justice for all who deserve asylum