Disabled Boy Eligible for Asylum

[pop goes the weasel]

http://ktla.trb.com/news/local/ktla-me-disabled22apr22-lat,0,7158511.story?coll=ktla-newslocal-1

From the Los Angeles Times

CALIFORNIA

Disabled Boy Eligible for Asylum
By Henry Weinstein
Times Staff Writer

April 22, 2005

In a case spotlighting horrific conditions for disabled children in Russia, a federal appeals court in San Francisco ruled Thursday that the family of a disabled Russian child who was persecuted there for his condition is eligible for political asylum in the U.S.

Immigration law experts said that the ruling was especially significant because it held out the promise of sanctuary not just for Evgueni Tchoukhrova, who was born with cerebral palsy, but for his parents.

They also noted that a federal court's ability to stop deportation in a case like this would be curtailed if asylum restrictions contained in the so-called Real ID Act, now pending in Congress, are passed.

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Many more horrible details at the story link
http://ktla.trb.com/news/local/ktla-me-disabled22apr22-lat,0,7158511.story?coll=ktla-newslocal-1

I hope everyone at DU will contact their Congressmen about the Real ID bill and write their newspapers.

[Megahurtz]

1. Horrific Conditions.

I wonder if things get bad enough here for the disabled (benefits cuts via Bushitler) will we be able to take asylum in another country?

[Catffienated]

2. I hope so,,,,

Maybe Canada?