Asylum Denied: An Indictment of Our Immigration System

I just finished reading David Ngaruri Kenneys compelling immigration story in Asylum Denied: A Refugee’s Struggle For Safety In America. The book tells the very human tale of political refugee David Ngaruri Kenney — a previous Immigrant of the Day — and his harrowing odyssey through the world of immigration processing in the United States.  Despite his imprisonment and torture in Kenya and remarkable escape to the United States, Kenney faced a guantlet of ordeals and proceedings (including the Fourth Circuit, a racist consular officer, etc.) as U.S. government agencies sought to deport him to Kenya and keep him from returning to his U.S. citizen wife in the United States.

This book highlights many of the problems with our current immigration system, including the disparities in asylum grants among different immigration judges, consular absolutism, the need for meaningful judicial review, the difficulties in satisfying the many requirements for relief from removal, and the basic harshness of the system.  Asylum Denied isa MUST READ for immigration junkies!

KJ