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If they leave, will they find refuge?

By Marks & Katz, LLC

My high school freshman social studies teacher was a smart, caring, humorous man, who also was pro-Reagan. He was fond of saying that a barometer of the level of a nation?s freedom is whether its populace is free to emigrate. That resonated with me until I learned how heavily restrictive immigration law and policies are in the United States and other countries ?- particularly by the time I joined my law school?s immigration law clinic and experienced the thrill of victory helping one client obtain political asylum, and the agony of defeat with the denial of asylum at an administrative trial with another client, both of them from Ethiopia during the administration of Reagan, who did not like Ethiopia?s then-Marxist government -- even with people who have escaped war and otherwise terrorized lives...continue to full post

Full post as published by Underdog on July 12, 2010 (boomark / email).