Commentary: Here are just a few of the ways our immigration and asylum systems fail to deliver basic justice
by Scott Martelle, Los Angeles Times
Dec 31, 2018
3 minutes
Two court actions a continent apart are driving home — yet again — the point that the U.S. asylum system neither lives up to basic standards of human decency and due process nor, it seems, to the promises of the Constitution.
In New York on Thursday, a federal district court judge slammed the government for failing to even offer a bond hearing to a man it had detained for 34 months after he arrived at the U.S.-Mexico border and asked for asylum because
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