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Poisoning the Asylum Well by: Valtin Sun Aug 24, 2008 at 15:01:24 PDT (8:30PM EST - promoted by Nightprowlkitty) Charlie Savage has an article in today's New York Times focusing on the politicization of the civil service process that selects the nation's immigration judges. The use of a political litmus test for the conservatism of Department of Justice applicants surfaced last summer in ... two scathing reports confirming that for several years administration officials illegally took political affiliation into account when hiring recent law school graduates, summer associates, some assistant prosecutors and immigration judges. The culprits in this twisted, and illegal, vetting process were the assistant to the Attorney General, Kyle Sampson, and two former White House flunkies, Monica Goodling and Jan Williams. The story about the disparities in adjudication of asylum cases surfaced in a Stanford Law Review report last Spring (which I covered at the time.) There's More... :: (14 Comments, 843 words in story)

Support the Detainee Basic Medical Care Act of 2008 by: Valtin Thu May 15, 2008 at 16:09:41 PDT ( - promoted by buhdydharma ) An action alert from Physicians for Human Rights: We urge you to write your Senators and Representative today to support the Detainee Basic Medical Care Act of 2008. Shocking exposés this week by the New York Times, Washington Post, and 60 Minutes have confirmed the alarming breakdown in health care for detained asylum seekers and other immigrants in custody of the office of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), resulting in needless suffering and, in the most tragic cases, avoidable death. There's More... :: (2 Comments, 331 words in story)