As a serious aside, for someone preaching adherence to the law, you should try to sit through immigration court one day. While training as an Interpreter, I witnesses several victims of kidnapping, torture and rape by militias testify in painstaking detail of the horrors they had and would endure again in their countries of origin only to have their refugee status denied on a technicality. It was heartbreaking.
One of these girls had been kept in a dark room, taken out only so she could be gang raped and tortured, and underwent three years of it, only to be finally be so broken down and used up that they allowed her to be trained as a beautician so she could cut the soldier's hair in between rapes-the lady that trained her facilitated her countries' version of an underground railroad that led to her being smuggled out of the country to serve as a nanny in D.C. After a year service, the family fired her for asking for a raise. She was picked up off the street. She had a mother and sister in her country which she had wanted to try to locate, as she lost them the day the militia shot her father (a noted resistance leader) in front of her and kidnapped the 3 women.
On the stand, she blamed it on herself. She said she was too young and naive to see that putting herself out there to protest her government would put her in this situation, but she had faith that the United States would help her stay, as she would surely be killed should she go.
This was one of many, and the main reason I became a medical interpreter instead of a legal one. There but for the grace of God...
