Abused Woman Waits 12 Years for Asylum

Syndicated from No One is Illegal - Vancouver on Tue, 2008-10-14

NEW YORK, Oct 14 (IPS) - In what some government critics are citing as an egregious example of public foot-dragging and bureaucratic inefficiency in immigration rule-making, the woman at the centre of one of the United States’ longest-running asylum disputes may now be in further jeopardy. The case involves the asylum claim of Rodi Alvarado, [...]