It looks like I have to write a paper for my Asylum class detailing the situation of any particular group of refugees or in cutting-edge topics in refugee/asylee law.  I get to choose the paper topic.  So far I've got a couple of ideas:

1. The failure of the US to accept more than a handful of Iraqi or Afghani refugees after we went in and shook ( Read more... )

And not in the Pauly Shore sense.  That guy's kind of a douche ( Read more... )

Here I sit, wandering around the Web, trying hard to procrastinate on my Immigration final.  And interestingly, the topic of Immigration seems to be coming up a fair amount lately.  There have been some interesting posts on LJ lately on the subject.  One is this serious jerk online (I suspect it's a front for someone who has been very wounded in ( Read more... )

OK, I give.  I seem to have about a bajillion friends from real life on here now, so it's about time to actually post to my account.  I guess one could say that I've achieved a critical mass of LJ friends.  There's probably some witty comment I could insert here about masses and friends, which I'm pretty sure would either involve totalitarianism,  ( Read more... )