Masha Gessen | The Bureaucratic Nightmare of Fighting Deportation



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Anastasia Schimanski has lived in the U.S. since the age of eleven, and faces likely persecution if she were forced back to Russia. (photo: Matt Leifheit/The New Yorker)
Masha Gessen, The New Yorker
Gessen writes: "It is humanity that immigration law is intended to protect. Judges are not instructed to look kindly on military veterans or brilliant students - they are supposed to prevent the deportation of human beings to places where they are likely to face persecution or torture."
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