This is amazing.
It would also be great if we spoke this way about how wrong it was for the US to deny asylum to folks from El Salvador and Guatemala in the 1980s.
Because some of the people--State department officials--partly responsible for that were only recently in office.
It would also be great if we spoke this way about how wrong it was for the US to deny asylum to folks from El Salvador and Guatemala in the 1980s.
Because some of the people--State department officials--partly responsible for that were only recently in office.
https://twitter.com/jaketapper/status/1380209001850400774
A few years ago, I gave an academic paper about Ana Estela Guervara Flores, who was one of people in the Orantes-Hernandez litigation but also an important case in her own right that was denied cert by SCOTUS in 1986. justice.gov/sites/default/…
I did a lot of research about the lengths that the State department went to accuse this refugee of being someone she wasn't and a security threat. She wasn't.
Here's a bit from that paper: "The immigration authorities and FBI detained and interrogated Ana, convinced that she was “Commandante Norma Guevara,” a well-known “communist terrorist.” The FBI, through the US Embassy in El Salvador,
informed the Salvadoran government of their suspicions and as them to compare Ana’s photo and fingerprints with that of the Commandante. The Salvadoran authorities—after searching Ana’s home in San Salvador and arresting Ana’s mother and sister--
determined the two women (Ana and Norma) were not a match, but the US authorities still agreed to let the Salvadoran authorities know when Ana was to be deported to El Salvador so that she could be detained and questioned there about her possession of subversive literature."
Like a tape recording of the last homily of Archbishop Romero.
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