Friday, March 16, 2012

an activist from Cameroon

The Asylum Officer asked:
-show me your passport! what is your immigration history? a] you asked for a visa, while living in Cameroon? what did you say on your application?
b] you were a student here in USA? for how long? where is I-20? how did you pay tuition?
who paid it?
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Is there anyone here in USA who has knowledge of your case?
Why did you draw a picture of your nightmare?
After you were injured, did you return voluntarily to your "dangerous" country?
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Tell me about all of your international travel: where did you live for each of the past 60 months? [there are 12 months in a year; 12 x 5= 60 months?]
You lived in Senegal for 3 months? why not apply for asylum there?
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you say you were raped in June 2010? why were you raped? what was the motive of the bad guy? did you tell anyone about that event? why not?
-did you send emails to your brother? did he send emails to you? Will you open your email account right now,at my desk, and show me your email history?
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Your boyfriend is named Pascal? where is he now? where did he live for the past five years? what was his immigration status in each country where he lived?
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you say you were arrested in the city of Buea in December 2011? where were you at the moment of your arrest? who else was there? Baptiste was there? why did n't he write a letter of support for you?
-you were having a political meeting? what were you discussing? what alternatives did you consider? what subjects were being debated? you sat on a chair and listened? nothing else?
Does your government care if you sit on a chair in silence?
How did government find out you were having a meeting?
What did your government do that you did not like?
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you were being injured by Captain David? why not flee from him sooner?
why the delay? why not go to the city of Yaounde? wouldn't you be safe there?
What options did you have at that time? what information did you have at that time?
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did your mother ever have problems with government? can you tell me the month, year, and city?
=You arrived in USA in December 2011? then you waited over one year, and then applied for asylum? why the delay? did you have any health issues here in USA?
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How did the Sergeant find out about the meeting? who told him?
You have a baby son? when you were in Senegal, who took care of him? now you are in USA: who takes care of him?
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Did you join an organization here in USA? did they give you a card?
Why not? you do not really care about politics?
-back in your country, did you join an organization? did they give you a card?
-when your group protested, did they have a permit? were they arrested because they had no permit?
So, you were a student, protesting against your university? were any "similarly-situated" persons injured in the last six months?
-why did n't you see a doctor here in USA? how expensive are they? you work here in USA< don't you?
If you return to your country tomorrow, what would happen?
Why was there a long delay before you fled from the bad guys?
Why was there a long delay before you applied for asylum?
Earlier, you applied for a visa, you applied to be a student? I have a copy of your applications here; but you dont, correct? so, I know more about your applications than you do?
Is there anything else? yes?, what?
Do you have a Facebook account? what do you say on it?

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