Judge releases Somali ‘asylum seeker’ even though
ORR said he was an adult, not a teen, by
Ann Corcoran, 5/6/16
Wow! Check out this story from
Seattle—first, because it gives us a few clues about Unaccompanied Alien
Minors, not all from Central America and Mexico, who know how to game the
system, and secondly because here we see that the Office of Refugee
Resettlement is trying to ferret out frauds among the ‘children’ only to
be thwarted by a judge.
The lower court judge ruled and
Judge Pechman affirmed that a scientific bone density scan couldn’t be used to
show that the illegal alien Somali was a teen or not.
Gosh, does this mean the Somali, who
could be an adult, will be sent back to hang out in high school?
Sure looks like he was returned to
foster care (and presumably high school) according to another article at The Seattle Times.
Message to all young men
from around the world who want to break into America, get rid of your passports
and any other identification before you arrive at the border and then lie, lie,
lie!
A judge affirmed a ruling this week that federal immigration officials
unlawfully used a dental exam to determine that a teenaged Somali asylum seeker
was an adult, and wrongly detained him in the Northwest Detention Center in
Tacoma.
The teenager, identified in court
documents by his initials B.I.C., had entered the United States in August 2015
and applied for asylum as a minor. He was issued a special immigrant juvenile
visa and sent to live with a foster mother in Portland. However, in December
the Office of Refugee Resettlement said that based on a dental bone scan, they
no longer believed that he was a minor.
The teenager had traveled through South and Central America in order to
reach the United States, and had destroyed his identification documents so
he would not get sent back to Somalia, according to the court filings, so he
had no documentation for his age. [So, he committed fraud by destroying his ID
papers!—ed]
With the dental bone scan as the
only piece of evidence that he was an adult, U.S. Immigration and Customs
Enforcement (ICE) arrested the
teenager from his high school near Portland and took him to the Northwest
Detention Center in December.
He was released after two months,
after the Northwest Immigrants’ Rights Project filed a suit seeking the teenager’s release. Chief Magistrate
Judge James Donahue ruled that using a bone density scan as the sole piece of
evidence of someone’s age violates federal law and that the teenager should be
freed.
Donahue’s recommendation was adopted this week by U.S. District Judge
Marsha Pechman, who also threw out ORR’s determination that he was an adult
when he was first taken into custody.
According to The Seattle Times story he will be released from foster care when he turns 18
(whenever that is, or was), but what next? Does he just disappear into the
American Somali community? Or, will the Northwest Immigrants’ Rights Project
take responsibility for him? (surely not!) Or, better still, maybe the
good judge will take him in!
Comments
Our US
refugee law needs to be suspended and refugee admission stopped.
Norb Leahy,
Dunwoody GA Tea Party Leader
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