Reply #11: "Eleventh Circuit Thinks Death Threats and Gun Shots Don’t Justify Asylum" [View All]

[Rose Siding]

On May 5, 2006, the Eleventh Circuit issued a split, 2-1 decision denying asylum to a Colombian woman who, because of her political work, had been on the receiving end of menacing phone calls, a death threat note and gunfire. Previously filibustered, formerly recess-appointed, highly controversial Bush II pick Bill Pryor authored the majority opinion over a stinging dissent by Bush I appointee Ed Carnes. Apparently, Judge Carnes decided he’d finally had it with the errors committed by the immigration judges below him.

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http://www.afj.org/2006/05/eleventh-circuit-thinks-death-threats.html