Immigration Lawyer: ‘Strong Case’ That Black Americans Could Qualify as Refugees

In a piece for The Washington Post, immigration defense lawyer Raha Jorjani attempts to make the case that black Americans could qualify as refugees in their own country because of their incarceration rates and for being targets of persecution at the hands of police officers.

“Suppose a client walked into my office and told me that police officers in his country had choked a man to death over a petty crime,” Jorjani begins. “Suppose he said police fatally shot another man in the back as he ran away.”

She concludes:

Had they remained alive, Trayvon Martin, Eric Garner, Malissa Williams, Timothy Russell, John Crawford, Rekia Boyd, Michael Brown, Akai Gurley, Walter Scott, Ezell Ford, Mya Hall, Dontre Hamilton, Tamir Rice, Tanisha Anderson, Miriam Carey, Yvette Smith, Samuel Dubose and so many others would be able to demonstrate that they had more than a well-founded fear of persecution at the hands of their government or individuals whom their government was unable or unwilling to control.

Black Americans should not have to flee this country to seek refuge.

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Rascal
Rascal
9 years ago

OMG! Just when you think it can’t get any worse.

phil
phil
9 years ago

Refugees my ass, there is no end to the racist black caucus in the congress and the white liberal Bolshevik democrat party and there pandering for votes. The black Caucus must be disbanded and they should not be allowed to call themselves that any longer, its racist plain and simple.