Thursday, January 22, 2009

questions asked of a Christian from Bangladesh

The AO asked: tell me the bio details from page 1 of the I-589; now, tell me about each member of your family: DOB; POB; current immmigration status, where did they travel, and when?
-what was your last address, outside of USA?
-when did you leave your country; when did you enter USA?
You say you suffered in Bangladesh; you want asylum in USA; isn't there a third country, somewhere, where you can live? can you prove with a piece of paper that you can't live in France? what does the embassy of France say? did you ask?

-do you own land in your country? do you own a house there? is it empty? who lives in it right now? whoever lives in it, has your same religion and ethnic group? how come no one kills them? you say you suffered because you were a Christian? isn't your mother a Christian? how come no one hurt her? Oh, you say she lives in fear? she stays inside as much as she can?

Let's talk about the bad guys. What did they wear? did they have any weapons? what language did they speak? is their accent different from yours? what words did they say? can you repeat each word? what "exactly" did they say? when they said that, where was your wife? did she hear it too? how come she did not say that in her letter?

what did they say as they left? did you report this to the police? why not? what religion are the police? how did the bad guys find you? your house is on a street without a name? there is no number on the house? so how do the bad guys know where you were? do people gossip in your neighborhood? everyone knows what everyone else is doing? so, just ask a guy on the street, "tell me where this family lives?"

-has your family back in your country had any problems, since you left? NO? everything is OK? so, go live with them. They have no problems? go live with them; you do not need asylum here in the USA.
is there anything else? Yes? what?
Did you read your two-page Declaration before the interview? why not? did the Asylum Officer read it? did your lawyer read it? do both of them know more about your Declaration than you do? does that make you feel embarrassed, that the two Americans know more about you than you do? What emotions does the Asylum Officer have, right now, watching you be unable to repeat your own story? does he think you are a moron?

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