In June, our white nationalist Attorney General decided a case, Matter of A-B-, that gutted asylum law and made Central American gang cases much harder to win.
That didn't matter today, thank God. Just won asylum for a father and a daughter.
That didn't matter today, thank God. Just won asylum for a father and a daughter.
Jeff Sessions can suck it.
I've done a lot of these cases and each one is its own emotional roller coaster. Today, though, my eyes were wet during trial, because my client had told me he didn't care what happened to him. Just that his daughter be allowed to stay.
I've done a lot of these cases and each one is its own emotional roller coaster. Today, though, my eyes were wet during trial, because my client had told me he didn't care what happened to him. Just that his daughter be allowed to stay.
All the thousands of people fleeing persecution may be dehumanized by our government, but my God, their words, their actions, and their feelings are all so human.
A lot had to go right. Getting a grown man to open up and pour out the fear he had been living with for 7 years isn't easy. Sessions is a deliberately trying to make it impossible to win. He had an elementary school education. But it didn't matter: His sincerity showed through.
If we could just listen, as a country, instead of throwing up walls. If we started from compassion and strength instead of fear and weakness. If we could remember our founding values.
If we could just do the right thing.
If we could just do the right thing.
