Reply #15: I had some interactions with the INS a few years ago [View All]

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I and my wife voluteered to take in an asylum seeker from Cambodia, whom the Cambodian government had tried to kill several times because of his human rights work as a lawyer.

Even though we agreed to sponsor him, he was kept in prison for several months while his case was investigated. My wife and I appeared in court a few times, just for moral support. The judge was a super asshole and seemed to want to either ship him back to Cambodia or let him stay in prison for a long time. Luckily an ambassador who he know testified in his behalf, and the judge was very impressed with that.

I never thought about the possibility that the prison where he stayed might have been for profit, and I don't know if it was.