DSK’s accuser potentially faces a host of immigration problems

Saturday, July 2nd, 2011

There is a foreign woman who goes unnamed in the United States media — though I predict not for much longer. She has been identified as an asylee from Guinea, a West African nation. The media reports are quite unclear about the lady’s actual immigration status. She accused Dominique Strauss Kahn, the former director of the International Monetary Fund and expected candidate for the presidency of France, of trying to vaginally rape her and of forcing her to fellate him at a hotel…

TRAC Report Shows Misapprehension of Immigration Court Role

Sunday, December 19th, 2010

TRAC, the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse, which describes itself as a data gathering, data research and data distribution organization at Syracuse University issues statistical reports about immigration court matters. TRAC reports analyze backlogs in the immigration courts and compared statistics about grant rates for different types of cases in the different immigration courts and by immigration judges. On November 9, 2010, it issued a report, “ICE Seeks to Deport the Wrong People,” which analyzed the results of immigration court proceedings…