It’s now nearly impossible to get asylum in Chicago immigration court
A report highlights the increasing difficulty of obtaining asylum in Chicago immigration courts. The story features a Venezuelan man who faced persecution but struggled to secure legal protection.
The Venezuelan man believed his case for asylum checked all the boxes to let him stay in the United States.He had proof of how badly local police hurt him when they kidnapped and sodomized him, the nadir of months of harassment. As a gay man, he’s considered part of a protected class. And after he reported the assaults, the officers swore revenge.“They will kill me, these police officers,” he testified in Spanish in August. “They'll know when I am there” in Venezuela. “I don’t want to…
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