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Asylum Denied: A Refugee’s Struggle for Safety in America
Asylum Denied: A Refugee’s Struggle for Safety in America
Asylum Denied: A Refugee’s Struggle for Safety in America
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Asylum Denied is the gripping story of political refugee David Ngaruri Kenney's harrowing odyssey through the world of immigration processing in the United States. Kenney, while living in his native Kenya, led a boycott to protest his government's treatment of his fellow farmers. He was subsequently arrested and taken into the forest to be executed. This book, told by Kenney and his lawyer Philip G. Schrag from Kenney's own perspective, tells of his near-murder, imprisonment, and torture in Kenya; his remarkable escape to the United States; and the obstacle course of ordeals and proceedings he faced as U.S. government agencies sought to deport him to Kenya. A story of courage, love, perseverance, and legal strategy, Asylum Denied brings to life the human costs associated with our immigration laws and suggests reforms that are desperately needed to help other victims of human rights violations.
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Release dateMay 1, 2008
ISBN9780520934726
Asylum Denied: A Refugee’s Struggle for Safety in America
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David Ngaruri Kenney

David Ngaruri Kenney came to the United States after he was persecuted in Kenya. He continues to pursue a career in public service and currently works at the Montgomery County State 's Attorney's Office in Maryland, USA. Philip G. Schrag is Professor of Law and Director of the Center for Applied Legal Studies at Georgetown University Law Center. He is the author of many books including Ethical Problems in the Practice of Law, with Lisa G. Lerman, and A Well-Founded Fear: The Congressional Battle to Save Political Asylum in America.

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    Compelling memoir by a man who, as a teenager, led a farmers' protest in Kenya and was imprisoned and tortured for his efforts, then came to the U.S. for college and later sought asylum. His collaborator is the Georgetown law professor whose clinic represented him through the frustrating -- and unsuccessful -- process. The personal story brings to life the shortcomings of our asylum system.

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