Asylum and Its Discontents in the United States
In the Ethiopian-American community, at long last, the hunters have become the hunted. Members of the community have created a new website to share information and help bring to justice Ethiopian human rights abusers living in the United States. The founders of the website, called YaTewlid (meaning “The Generation”), are themselves torture survivors. They have … Read more
I’ve written a number of times about the route East African asylum seekers take to reach the United States. The journey usually takes them through Africa to South Africa, and then to South America, Central America, and finally the U.S. Along the way, the asylum seekers are passed from one smuggler to the next. Because I … Read more
The largest group of asylum seekers in the Washington, DC area–and the majority of my asylum cases–are from Ethiopia, so a recent story in the Washington Post caught my attention (ok, it actually caught my wife’s attention and she emailed it to me, so she gets credit for this one). Henok Tesfaye is an Ethiopian immigrant … Read more