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Asylum Brief in Child Soldier Case

By immigrationprof

From Stephen Yale-Loehr:

Attached is a redacted version of a BIA brief recently filed by the Cornell Asylum/CAT appeals clinic on behalf of local counsel in Minnesota. The asylum case involves a child soldier from Uganda who was an unwilling member of the Lord’s Resistance Army before coming to the US. The case also raises issues concerning the one-year deadline for filing for asylum, and whether the “persecutor” bar applies to child soldiers. The teenager won asylum before the IJ; the DHS appealed.

Download uganda_briefredacted.doc

KJ