Asylum and Its Discontents in the United States
I had a case last week where the Eritrean government arrested and beat my client because they believed she helped her brother escape from the national military service. We tried to frame the case in terms of imputed political opinion (our claim was that the authorities thought my client was “anti-government” because she helped her … Read more
In a strongly-worded dissenting opinion, Judge Harry Pregerson of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit Court wrote that an immigration attorney provided ineffective assistance of counsel for failing to ask her client about whether the client had been subject to female genital mutilation (“FGM”). In Teclezghi v. Holder, Nos. 07-70661 & 07-71463 (9th Cir. Jan. … Read more