Insane asylum

In immigration court in Atlanta, where every year thousands of undocumented aliens learn whether they will be deported, there is no bailiff to announce the arrival of a judge. And so for the last 15 minutes on this Wednesday in January, all eyes have been focused on the door that leads to the judge's chambers. The only sound in this windowless room with the drop ceiling and dingy blue walls is the ventilation whirring quietly above.

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Nigerian faces ouster but says feds in error PDF Print E-mail
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Monday, 09 August 2004

Jonathan Madu, a Nigerian whose wife is a U.S. citizen, has been languishing in detention almost two years at a Louisiana prison, waiting for a court to decide whether the U.S. government is wrongly trying to deport him.

 

Madu's attorney, Glenn Fogle, says the case is "a typical story," one of hundreds in which people spend months and even years in detention, and even get deported, despite obvious mistakes by the government in their cases. 

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Follow Up to the Jonanthan Madu Story:

Glenn Fogle of the Fogle Law Firm wins Jonathan Madu's case in the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals.  link to decision

 

Last Updated ( Wednesday, 15 April 2009 )
 
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