This is what really, really pisses me off: Thousands of asylum cases that are based on dangerous country conditions are rejected daily by immigration courts and judges once they *find* (aka, decide) that a credible threat of persecution does not exist.

You have to fear for you life based on concrete evidence that there are individuals, communities, governments sitting tight waiting for your return so they can harm you. Someone please explain to me how they find it credible that the Kenyan government is sitting tight and waiting to torture and God knows what else, a 58 year-old infirm woman.


Is it really more dangerous than the rapidly deteriorating situation in Mexico? One headline just published this morning: 14 Decapitated Bodies Found in Mexican Resort City
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110108/...rug_war_mexico
The people who still have relatives in there and have the option to leave are saying that everyone is trying to get out if that's a possiblity (and not to the U.S. People loathe the idea of living illegally in another country and they resent their government and U.S. policies for forcing the ones who are desperate to do the former)
And the continued grant of TPS to Central American countries with NEVER-improving country conditions?????? They had a hurricane 10-13 years ago and didn't recover. I don't begrudge the individuals getting the TPS relief; I find fault with the reasoning behind the government - these countries will never improve; at best they can keep holding their states' conditions as they are.