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Hassan Ahmad 🇺🇸
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Another hopefully successful asylum interview here in Seattle, WA for a family forcibly displaced by political violence.
We have to protect this system. One of my clients is a little girl who had to watch agents of the ruling party manhandle her mother, then pregnant with her baby sister, so aggressively she fainted from shock.
Now in school, she's learned English and is picking up Spanish, in addition to her two native languages. They left everything behind, and we filed approximately 1000 pages of evidence to prove their case.
We included political articles to news reports to some special treatises I was able to get from the Library of Congress. And an expert affidavit from someone who knows the founder of the party my clients supported personally.
I decided to run for office because I saw the entire system under attack, and change starts in your own backyard.

It could have been my little girl.

It could have been any one of ours.

Please help support us! #Hassan4VA

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Hassan Ahmad 🇺🇸
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Less than 36 hours before the quarterly deadline.

Please chip in what you can. $15, $10, $5. I say it in English, Spanish, Urdu, Hindi, Arabic, French, Mandarin, Punjabi, and Farsi.

Send an immigration lawyer to the state house.

#Hassan4VA

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Tenemos menos de 36 horas...y le agradezco por su apoyo.

Estoy hablando en todos los idiomas que puedo: ayúdame ayudarle.

Yo entiendo los problemas del sistema y quiero ser parte de solución.

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عزیز بھائیو اور بہنو، 36 گھنٹوں میں ہماری ڈیڈ لائن ہے۔

چاہے پندرہ، دس، یا پانچ ڈالر دے سکتے ہیں، ہم آپ کے حقوق کے لیے لڑنے کو تیار ہیں۔

اللہ تعالیٰ جزائے خیر دے۔

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Hassan Ahmad 🇺🇸
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I'm very excited to announce that State Senator @JenniferBoysko (SD-33) endorses our campaign in my bid for the Democratic nomination for the VA House of Delegates in District 87!

#Hassan4VA
Boysko took over the state Senate seat vacated by @JenniferWexton, now our Congresswoman from #VA10.

“When I was a newly elected House of Delegates member in 2013, one of my first priorities was ensuring that our most vulnerable communities could thrive in VA," said Boysko.
"In my advocacy at the state legislature, Hassan Ahmad helped me to lift up and share the experiences of Virginia residents affected by policies like the Virginia DREAM Act and driver’s licenses for the undocumented community."
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Hassan Ahmad 🇺🇸
@HMAesq
Workers, by the sweat of their brow, deserve both respect and protection. South Asian poetry is replete with odes to the "mazdoor," or laborer. I thought about the mazdoor class yesterday, when I had the honor of visiting the KML Local 197 training facility in Upper Marlboro, MD.
It serves over 1500 members in Virginia, training carpenters and advocating for greater worker protections. (The KML Brotherhood Regional Council serves over 43,000 members throughout the Mid-Atlantic.)
These are the people who build the physical structures in which we live, drive, raise our families, and conduct our business. A small example: welders. They make sure the metal skeletons of buildings and bridges are strong, so it doesn't collapse one day when you drive over it.
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As a fmr immigration attorney let me be unambiguously clear. Crossing a boarder to claim asylum is *not* a crime; no under US or international law. Any child separated from a parent under that pretext is done so in direct contravention to the laws of the USA. ⚖ THREAD Pls RT.
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Today I prepared a beautiful 6-year-old girl in a pink hat for an #asylum interview.

ME: Do you want to go back to El Salvador?

CLIENT [eyes wide]: No!

ME: Why not?

CLIENT [looking down at table]: Because of the bad people.

She'll be deported before her 10th birthday.
That tweet above is pretty much verbatim what she'll be saying on Monday; her father will provide the rest. He'll tell the interviewer about the threats of kidnapping & murder, and what gangs do to children of people they extort if they can't escape. She will not receive asylum.
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