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By TChris, Section Civil Liberties
Posted on Tue Jan 04, 2005 at 11:31:52 AM EST
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Last June, TalkLeft asked why the Department of Homeland Security is resisting the asylum application of mentally challenged teenager Malik Jarno. Jarno's father was arrested and tortured before he was killed in 1998. Jarno fears that he will suffer the same fate if he's forced to return to Guinea. (More TalkLeft background here.)

Last week, Immigration Judge Joan Churchill — who "grants asylum applications at a significantly lower rate than other immigration judges" — rejected Jarno's asylum request. But the story might not end so unhappily.

U.S. Rep. Todd Platts, R-York, has asked the federal government to allow Mr. Jarno to stay in America. So have about 70 other members of Congress.

Jarno is no threat to America. Encourage your elected officials in Washington to join the effort to save this young man from a cruel fate.

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    Jarno's Asylum Application Rejected | 3 comments (3 topical)
    Re: Jarno's Asylum Application Rejected (none / 0) (#1)
    by Talkleft Visitor on Tue Jan 04, 2005 at 12:45:04 PM EST
    Significantly lower rate? That's an gasping understatement, Judge Churchill virtually never grants. She is scum.

    Re: Jarno's Asylum Application Rejected (none / 0) (#2)
    by Aaron on Tue Jan 04, 2005 at 01:08:29 PM EST
    According to the Washington Post,
    Jarno sought a home with relatives in Europe, but they didn't want to raise a mentally disabled youth, his attorneys say. So they put him on a plane to Dulles International Airport, where he arrived in early 2001 at the age of 16 and with a fake passport.
    If you don't like the judge, as a human being I'd still put her several levels above his relatives.

    Re: Jarno's Asylum Application Rejected (none / 0) (#3)
    by Talkleft Visitor on Wed Jan 05, 2005 at 06:29:17 AM EST
    Aaron: Good link. I wonder why the repugnant relatives did not try to foist the kid off on their european gov't.

    Jarno's Asylum Application Rejected | 3 comments (3 topical)