Posted on 01/02/2010 7:14:26 PM PST by Steelfish
Desperate Somalis Seek 'Back-Door' Route To U.S.
By AMY TAXIN, Associated Press Writer
LANCASTER, Calif. – The asylum seeker from Somalia hung his head as an immigration judge grilled him about his treacherous journey from the Horn of Africa. By air, sea and land he finally made it to Mexico, and then a taxi delivered him into the arms of U.S. border agents at San Diego.
Islamic militants had killed his brother, Mohamed Ahmed Kheire testified, and majority clan members had beaten his sister. He had to flee Mogadishu to live. The voice of the judge, beamed by videoconference from Seattle, crackled loudly over a speaker in the mostly empty courtroom near the detention yard in the desert north of Los Angeles. He wanted to know why Kheire had no family testimony to corroborate his asylum claim.
Kheire, 31, said he didn't have e-mail in detention, and didn't think to ask while writing to family on his perilous trek. It seemed like the end of Kheire's dream as he waited for the judge's ruling. He clasped his hands, his plastic jail bracelet dangling from his wrist, and looked up at the ceiling, murmuring words of prayer.
Kheire is one of hundreds of desperate Somalis in the last two years to have staked everything on a wild asylum gamble by following immigration routes to the United States traditionally traveled by Latinos. With the suspension of a U.S. refugee program and stepped-up security in the Gulf of Aden and along Mediterranean smuggling routes, more overseas migrants from Somalia are pursuing asylum through what one expert calls the "back door."
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This story is sickening! This parasitic Muslim was allowed to leave and to blend into our society after reaching our nation through the "backdoor."
So what are you going to do about Obama and his policies? Allow more of this to flourish or actually DO something about it? Take the fight to him.
Shouldn’t Somali refugees be seeking asylum in another free country on the African continent like South Africa for instance? The ones that make it to the US seem none to happy.
Most of their relatives are in Minneapolis.
His sister was beaten - he did not seek justice or stay to protect her.
His country's government is nonexistent, dominated by the Taliban. The local council seems to be corrupt as well. His solution: run away.
His life seems to be very important to him - but not to me.
No welfare. Only US, Canada UK or Europe have free dollars and an apartment paid for.
Muslim nation, no love or pretty blondes.
They want to either move to the United States or blow it up.
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