Guilty of being Arab, sentence 3 yrs prison & life without your family..

[preciousdove]

http://www.recordpub.com/article.php?pathToFile=/articles/news/&file=_news3.txt&article=1&tD=

(Plus all of the families assets. The legal bills are staggering)

The Board of Immigration Appeals has overruled a decision that would keep a former Kent man from being deported based on fears that he would be tortured in his homeland.

(Because the original charge was "terrorism" his life and freedom ARE at risk in his own country despite the fact that three courts ruled that there was no evidence for the charge)

Al-Jailani, a native of Yemen, lived in Kent with his wife and three children before he was arrested in Oct. 2002. He is being held at a federal prison in Pennsylvania, where he is fighting an order that he be deported to his homeland based on a domestic violence conviction that has been pardoned by Gov. Bob Taft... Although Taft pardoned the conviction, the Board of Immigration Appeals has ruled that the pardon is meaningless when it comes to domestic violence convictions.

(The domestic abuse incident was a misunderstanding years ago. and it escalated because a paralegal erroneously told him to plead "no-contest" and neither knew anything about the law at the time. He was punished the family went through counseling and they were a model family at the time of his arrest for terrorism)

“I grew up thinking that this was a democracy and that we have justice and liberty here, but what I’ve seen is completely the opposite,” said Swensen, who met Al-Jailani when he was a graduate student in Japan.

(They both volunteered for the Kobe earthquake relief efforts while they were there. He is a geologist for kripes sake. He is neither a terrorist or an abuser. I thought that reason would have prevailed by now. How much longer will you be evil America?)