South African asylum seekers in USA seek attorney

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From: AdrianaStuijt

South African asylum seekers in USA seek attorney

From: Wilna Van Beek To: Adriana Stuijt Sent: Tuesday, October 15, 2002 2:27 AM

Subject: Asylum progress USA - Texas

Hi Adriana,

Just to let you know how things are going in my asylum process.

 

I applied in August and already had an interview 3 weeks ago.  My application was sent to Texas.  My interview was in Denver and they flew an assylum officer from Texas for the interview. 

 

My asylum application was not denied: I just got notice from the INS that I need to appear in front of an immigration judge on Nov 12 in Denver, CO.  They merely seem to have a problem with the fact that I filed more than 1 year after I entered the USA.  So now I am looking for an attorney (free) to help me.  I am going to Denver tomorrow to try and find one.

 

This in short about what is happening. Several other South Africans already got their asylum applications approved as well -- mostly in the Texas INS office.  It sounds as if the people elsewhere (other than in Texas) have no idea what is happening in South Africa and they give the South Africans a hard time.I am glad I could file in Texas.

 

Thought you would appreciate news from what is happening.

 

I really appreciate all the information you sent me and  I visit your website on a regular basis.

 

Sincerely

 

Wilna van Beek

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From: trixie

Dear Adriana,

I was wondering if it is possible to get an e-mail address for Eva Georgia.  Her asylum was approved in 1999.  I need a judge name and or case number.  It seems as if it is very important to show our judges this info, because more and more people are applying for asylum and it appears that all the judges are not aware of previous approved asylum cases.

I need to appear  in front of a judge again on Jan 9 2003.

Thank you

Trixie

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From: AdrianaStuijt

Hùge farm attack death rate led to murder of woodgatherer:

http://www.news24.com/News24/South_Africa/Gauteng/0,1113,2-7-829_1280825,00.html
The high incidence of deadly farm attacks in Bronkhorstspruit by young African males had created such an overwhelming fear of all unknown Africans that this fear had led to the murder of a tresspassing African wood-gatherer on a farm there last year.

Psychologist Jacobus Francois Truter testified that 23-year-old farmer Jan Vermeulen had worked and lived in great fear on his farm and had been very security-conscious and terrified for the safety of his family due to the huge number of violence-driven stock thefts and 33 farm murders that year in the Bronkhorstspruit area, which all had been carried out by young African males.

 

Vermeulen pleaded guilty to a charge of murdering wood-gatherers Simon Makhabitshane and assaulting Joseph Nkosi on his father's farm at Leeufontein.

 

The psychologist told the Pretoria High Court that Vermeulen had been become terrified for his family, and very security-conscious due to the 33 deadly farm attacks which had occurred that year -- and all of which had been carried out by young African males.

 

The psychologist said Vermeulen therefore, and accurately, "saw black people as being responsible for farm murders and stock thefts". Vermeulen also suspected that strangers who were gathering wood could well be carrying out reconnaissance of the farm to plan future crimes. Farm security experts often warn farmers to be on the lookout for such strangers.

• Click here to see some known names of murder victims of farm attacks in 2001 :

Truter said Vermeulen had shown remorse for his action - and is also deeply concerned about the fate of his elderly parents, who had received death threats and would probably lose ownership of the farm.

 

Vermeulen had also written letters to the victims -- Nkosi and Makhabitshane's families -- begging forgiveness.

 

He said Vermeulen was not an inherently violent person and had not been poli

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From: AdrianaStuijt

14/12/2002 - Dawid Kotze, farmer of Rietkuil, Delmas shot in the head by five armed attackers

 

December 14 2002 at 12:06PM - 64-year-old Afrikaner farmer Dawid Kotze was fighting for his life at the Delmas Hospital in Mpumalanga after he was shot in the head on Friday by five unknown masked men who attacked his farm by firing bullets through the window of his Rietkuil homestead. Only a $50 cellphone was taken -- very likely just to stop the farmer from alerting police or employees, but nothing else was robbed, police said on Saturday.

 

Captain Olga Ballot said the attackt occurred at 10pm when Dawid Kotze heard several gunshots and was hit by one of the bullets fired through the window of his farm home.

 

Five balaclava-clad gunmen then entered the house and grabbed his cellphone -- to stop the farmer from warning  rescuers. The attackers then went to the workers' homes where they introduced themselves as police and ordered the two employees to open up. The workers where tied up.

 

Yet although the farmer and the workers had been left defenceless -- the attackers simply lef the scene without taking anything else.

 

The victims were later found by other employees who contacted police and an ambulance.
No arrests had yet been made and police are investigating. - Sapa

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http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?newslett=1&click_id=13&art_id=qw1039857304395B216&set_id=1

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[dennisw]

They should file in the whitest INS area possible. IF, and I do mean IF, you can file in Idaho they should do it.

The problem is that Seattle be may where Idaho immigration cases are ajudicated. You would be shocked how many immigrants work for the INS and tend to let their own people skate through. So in Texas .....

[backhoe]

Hello, dennisw... thanks for looking, and I've noticed that about INS, too...

[wingnuts'nbolts]

How can people in the know, like Judges, not know about the murder and mayhem in S. Africa? South Africans have been coming here and becoming citizens for over 40 years rather than fight a losing battle in the end, only to lose everything including their lives.

It infuriates me that the news media ignores what is happening there.

[backhoe]

It infuriates me that the news media ignores what is happening there.

I agree, and the silence from the entertainment side of the media is telling, too- they had a big hand in setting up the situation that now exists over there, but they don't want to draw any attention to it.

It's radioactive for both sides of the media, who were enablers for the thugs currently in power.

[lavaroise]

Why don't they do it like the Mexicans? Get amnesty, it is safer than going legally. Going legally, if they find a little nook and crany in your background, they'll deport you. BEWARE. And to claim assylum as a white south African while INS workers are mostly black and hispanics, you are asking to be skined alive.

Attorneys are very expensive at times and ineffective because they like their special relation with the INS for their own super mega bucks deals they have with illegal/"legal"H1B immigrant traffikers and companies. I remember the INS agent yelling at my attorney because she had missing pieces of evidence. I had to step in to defend my attorney and got my visa!!! Talk about me playing lawyer for the lawyer and myself and what not. A freaging disaster.

Be careful. I dont know about Chinese attorneys, but some of them are very aggressive, but I doubt these commies will do it for a Boer, though, maybe.

South African women can have babies in the US and sanctuarize their future generation that way, that is the only immediate way that I can see loopholing this crap as it stands these days. Hell!