Let Zhang Shengli Stay (Are lunatics running the asylum policy?)

WSJ ^ | July 31, 2002 | CLAUDIA ROSETT

[Fzob]

Are lunatics running the asylum policy?

Wednesday, July 31, 2002 12:01 a.m.

NEW YORK--Zhang Shengli is running out of options. He came by our office here this week, hoping a talk with the press might help save him from being deported to China--where he fears he would go straight to prison. I think his fears are well-founded, all the more so because he is not flashy, not brilliant, not famous. Mr. Zhang is a sturdy 48-year-old fellow with thick eyebrows, a warm smile and what he describes as "so-so" skills in house painting and carpentry. In many ways, his greatest obstacle to freedom is that he seems so ordinary.

[goldstategop]

Funny thing is if he had just disobeyed the law and remained an illegal, he could have stayed here thanks to a Sec 245(i) amnesty. You know, the one President Bush supports. Being a law abiding person counts for nothing with the dysfunctional INS, even if you've clearly been a victim of ChiCom persecution.

[Militiaman7]

US immigration policy and the INS are a f*&^%$g joke

[Fzob]

Stories like this make me mad as can be. A guy that by all accounts just wants to live in freedom is doomed to a ChiCom prison becasue the INS can't figure out its a$$ from a hole in the ground.