Friday, July 08, 2005

Glokal and Shiela

Okay, so Gokal and Sheila were minorities in Afghanistan because they were Hindus. Fearing persecution by the Taliban, they came to the US in 1997 seeking political asylum. The immigration judge in the case clearly had no idea what he was doing and the hearings were a mess; the Newsweek article on the case is pretty mindblowing. Anway, the Keystone Homeland Security Kops jumped into action and quickly had the 70 year olds arrested and squirreled away into the sort of "detention center" that used to be unheard of in a free country. Nobody knows why, or can find out why. Transparency, eh?

Incidentally, you can easily click that last link to see the family's webpage, and if you're an American, email your elected representatives through the page. So, please do.

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