Monday, May 18, 2009

read your own application before court!

Mr. Kueviakoe, from Togo, was denied asylum because he could not repeat his own application.
In his I-589, Mr. K said he was dragged to a car. In court, he said he was dragged to a truck.
In his I-589, Mr. K said when the police came, he ran away. In court, he said when the police came, they hit him and arrested him.
In his I-589, Mr. K said he was in the hospital for two days; ;in court, for three weeks.

The government lawyer sighed deeply in court, and asked, "Mr. K, you were too busy to read your own application before coming to court? I know more about it than you do? the Judge knows more about it than you do? your own lawyer knows more about it than you do? Of all the people in court, you know the LEAST about the application?"