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December 4, 2008
SF Weekly Challenges Guardian Op-Ed on "Border Crossers"
By Lauren Smiley Usually SF Weekly lets its stories speak for themselves, yet the op-ed in the Guardian attacking my "Border Crossers" cover story last week -- comparing me to Jerry Springer and the Weekly to the National Enquirer -- calls for a response. My story took a critical yet sensitive loo ... More >>
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December 17, 2008
SF Weekly Letters
By Lauren Smiley Usually SF Weekly lets its stories speak for themselves, yet the op-ed in the Guardian attacking my "Border Crossers" cover story last week -- comparing me to Jerry Springer and the Weekly to the National Enquirer -- calls for a response. My story took a critical yet sensitive loo ... More >>
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December 10, 2008
SF Weekly Letters: Web Extra
By Lauren Smiley Usually SF Weekly lets its stories speak for themselves, yet the op-ed in the Guardian attacking my "Border Crossers" cover story last week -- comparing me to Jerry Springer and the Weekly to the National Enquirer -- calls for a response. My story took a critical yet sensitive loo ... More >>
News
November 26, 2008
Border Crossers
Long rap sheet? No problem. Transgender Latina hookers in S.F. are successfully fighting deportation by asking for asylum.
Calendar
July 4, 2007
Living Like a Refugee
Long rap sheet? No problem. Transgender Latina hookers in S.F. are successfully fighting deportation by asking for asylum.
News
May 10, 2006
The Asylum Trap
Unscrupulous attorneys prey on immigrants seeking green cards with an expensive and fruitless legal scheme. Now 29 Mexicans have joined the disbarment case against one such lawyer.
Film
July 21, 2004
Zoom Lens
The San Francisco Jewish Film Festival continues its "can't we all get along" ethos
News
March 3, 2004
Letters to the Editor
Week of Wednesday, March 3, 2004
News
October 16, 2002
International Dateline
How a 24-year-old San Jose woman became a media liaison for Hamid Karzai, the president of Afghanistan
News
October 25, 2000
Shelter from the Storm
Should the U.S. give asylum to victims of domestic violence? A Mission District woman's case may help decide that question.
News
March 22, 2000
Letters to the Editor
Letters from March 22, 2000
News
March 15, 2000
Spiritual CULTivation
In China, Falun Gong practitioners are beaten and persecuted, so the U.S. is granting them asylum. But is this movement as harmless as it seems?
News
July 7, 1999
Torture of a Transsexual
In a landmark case, Amanda DuValle, allegedly brutalized in Nicaragua because she is a transsexual, escaped deportation from the U.S. by invoking the U.N. Convention Against Torture. But if she won, why is she still in jail?
News
April 1, 1998
Safe Haven?
Gay-bashing survivor applies for political asylum
Blogs
July 1, 2009
S.F. Study: Immigration Judges More Burned Out Than Prison Wardens
What happens when judges' job burnout level gets too high? You don't want to know.According to a just-published survey of 96 U.S. immigration judges, the men and women deciding delicate asylum cases are stressed and burned-out to the point that the term "asylum" begins to have unpleasant connotation ... More >>
Blogs
July 17, 2009
Asylum for Battered Women -- a Question Raised by a San Francisco Case a Decade Ago -- Gets Obama Administration as an Advocate
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has paved the way for battered women from countries where such abuse is widely accepted to be granted asylum in the United States. The DHS declared its opinion in a court filing of an asylum case of a Mexican woman only referred as L.R., who was denied by a ... More >>
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August 25, 2010
Asylum Denied
Only a fraction of Mexicans get U.S. asylum.

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