In the DC metro area, the world of parking and tickets go hand in hand. However, some cities across the country are connecting homelessness with law enforcement. Barbara Ehrenreich wrote an op-ed article for the New York Times exploring the question: Is it now a crime to be poor? What do you think? Is it [...]
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Homelessness and poverty: what role does law play?
Posted in Homelessness, Legal System, Uncategorized, tagged Homelessness, Legal System on August 31, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Equal Asylum for Abused Female Immigrants?
Posted in Asylum, Bureaucracy, Legal System, Women Refugees, tagged Asylum, Bureaucracy, Legal System, Women Refugees on July 23, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
This is what happens when government bureaucracy interferes with the lives of abused women who seek asylum. A survivor of sustained domestic abuse, Rody Alvarado Peña escaped her homeland of Guatemala in 1995 and has resided here in the United States in a peculiar asylum “limbo”. For nearly fourteen years, Rody has been in a [...]
