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Court rejects San Jose woman's bid for asylum Nine-year resident fears persecution if returned to Indonesia By Howard Mintz Mercury News <[EMAIL PROTECTED] Jose Mercury News: Court rejects San Jose woman's bid for asylum> Article Launched: 05/07/2007 01:52:46 PM PDT A San Jose woman's nine-year quest for asylum suffered a potentially fatal blow today when a federal appeals court rejected her argument that she deserves safe haven in the United States because she'll be persecuted as a Chinese Catholic if returned to Indonesia. In a 22-page ruling, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals found that Marjorie Lolong had not established a legal basis for asylum, despite expressing sympathy for her concerns she'll be persecuted in the world's largest Muslim nation because of her ethnicity and because she's a woman. An expanded 15-judge panel of the appeals court issued an 11-4 ruling against Lolong, whose lawyers in 2004 persuaded a three-judge 9th Circuit panel to side with her asylum arguments. That 2004 ruling expanded the concept of asylum for a member of a "disfavored group," prompting the Bush administration to ask the court to reconsider because of concerns the decision could "open the floodgates" to asylum seekers. Today's ruling did not address the broader asylum right found in the earlier decision, essentially wiping it off the books. But for the 37-year-old Lolong, the ruling raises the prospect of being forced to leave the United States, where she's worked and gone to school since the mid-1990s. Lolong could not be immediately reached for comment. Robert Jobe, her attorney, also could not be reached. But Lolong's only legal option now is to ask the U.S. Supreme Court to review her case. Lolong described her plight last year in an interview with the Mercury News, saying she decided to petition for asylum in 1998 after an outbreak of the worst anti-Chinese rioting in Indonesia's history. More than a thousand ethnic Chinese were killed while homes, churches and businesses were looted and burned. Chinese women were raped, including a friend of Lolong's. After four years in the United States, she sought asylum when her family warned her of the troubles back in Indonesia, where the ethnic violence has subsided in recent years under a new government. In the interview, Lolong expressed little worry about losing in the 9th Circuit, saying "It's already a winning case for me." Since she first sought asylum, Lolong's fortunes have seesawed in the immigration and federal courts, which have produced a series of conflicting conclusions about her status. An immigration judge originally ruled in Lolong's favor, concluding she had a well-founded fear of persecution and should remain in the United States. But the Board of Immigration Appeals, the top branch of the immigration courts, overruled that decision, prompting Lolong's appeal to the 9th Circuit. In today's ruling, 9th Circuit Judge Jay Bybee, writing for the majority, said that Lolong has provided "no evidence" she personally would be targeted for persecution if returned to Indonesia. The majority decision did, however, express sympathy for Chinese-Christians who worry about retribution because of Indonesia's violent past. "Lolong has not shown the Indonesian government is unable or unwilling to control the perpetrators of this violence," wrote Bybee, a former top Justice department official in the Bush administration. Judge Sidney Thomas, joined by three other judges, dissented, saying the BIA decision was wrong. A Mercury News examination two years ago found that many of the agency's immigration decisions are overturned in the federal courts because of flawed, perfunctory reviews in asylum and deportation cases. "The BIA did not address the pivotal point of Lolong's claim - that the Indonesian government, for all its good intentions, is unable to control anti-Chinese and anti-Christian elements," the dissent said. ------------------------------ *Contact Howard Mintz at [EMAIL PROTECTED] or (408) 286-0236.* On 6/20/07, Alvin Daniel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
the problem is, kenapa mereka ga mau belajar bahasa lokal/Nordic? itu sama saja tamu minta dapet perlakuan khusus VIP. mestinya yg namanya pendatang, belajarlah utk mingle dengan lingkungan barunya. negara2 scandinavian adalah negara2 dengan peringkat GPI/global peace index 5 besar di dunia. kalau sampai krn imigran2 ini mengacau, maka tingkat keamanan dan kenyamanan hidup disana bisa terganggu. tapi saya yakin, pemerintah sana juga nggak goblok. suatu hari pasti mereka 'dikembalikan' ke negara asalnya. --- In [email protected] <mediacare%40yahoogroups.com>, "scribbler scribbler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Kita harus melihat latar belakang kenapa keberadaan para imigran dari Timur > Tengah di Eropa seperti itu. Para imigran itu kebanyakan adalah keluarga > korban konflik di Timur Tengah. Mereka mengungsi untuk menyelamatkan nyawa > mereka. Tanpa keahlian dan pendidikan yang memadai mereka datang ke Eropa > dan harus bersaing dengan orang tuan rumah yang berpendidikan dan memiliki > keahlian. Akibatnya mereka termarjinalisasi, hidup di ghetoo dalam > kemiskinan. Dari situlah muncul masalah-masalah sosial seperti kejahatan. > Apalagi pasca September 11 dan serangan terror lainnya imigran dari Arab > semakin termarjinalisasi karena racial prejudice yang semakin besar. Mereka > sulit mendapat pekerjaan dan didiskriminasi dalam berbagai bidang. > Masalah dari negara-negara Eropa, terutama negara Skandinavia, adalah mereka > terlalu membuka diri terhadap pencari suaka dari negara Arab yang tertimpa > konflik. > Gambaran imigran Arab di Eropa dan Amerika mungkin berbeda. Kebanyakan > imigran Arab di Amerika adalah kelas menengah dan mereka terintegrasi dengan > baik, walaupun ada masalah racial profiling dll setelah Sept 11. > Itu karena latar belakang imigrasi mereka juga berbeda. > >
