Wednesday, December 30, 2009

United States: End Detention of Refugees for Failure to File Forms


Human Rights Watch
December 29, 2009

"For the US government to bring persecuted refugees to this country and then turn around a year later and jail them because they didn't file immigration forms is ironic to the point of absurdity. This mindlessly bureaucratic policy unnecessarily traumatizes refugees and their families, not to mention wasting the government's resources."
Bill Frelick, refugee policy director at Human Rights Watch

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