Weekend Read: He said he'd be murdered if deported. He was.

[Judi Lynn]

Weekend Read: He said he'd be murdered if deported. He was.
December 15, 2018

Nearly a year after a judge rejected Santos Chirino’s case for asylum, his 18-year-old daughter and 19-year-old son returned to the very same courtroom to plead their own.

“Your honor, this is a difficult case,” their father’s lawyer, Benjamin Osorio, told Judge John Bryant. “I represented their father, Santos Chirino Cruz. … I lost the case in this courtroom. ... He was murdered in April.”

As Maria Sacchetti described for TheWashington Post, “Osorio paused, and the judge blanched and stammered.”

“You said their father’s case — did I understand I heard [it]?” Bryant asked, eyes wide.

More:
https://www.splcenter.org/news/2018/12/15/weekend-read-he-said-hed-be-murdered-if-deported-he-was

[RainCaster]

1. This breaks my heart

We need real change in our immigration system. The laws are outdated, and the courts hamstrung by quotas.

[violetpastille]

3. +1 We have enough room.

We can contain millions more people!

We can't contain millions more cars.

More fracking sites.

More nuclear power plants.

More wetlands destroyed.

More forests leveled.

More rivers poisoned.

But human BEINGS? Yes! We have plenty of room!

People are no problem.

[SunSeeker]

2. So infuriating and tragic. What have we become that we send asylum seekers back to their deaths?