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	<title>Birdsong&#039;s Law Blog &#187; Immigration Law</title>
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	<description>A whimisical look at law and politics by Birdsong</description>
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		<title>DOMSETIC VIOLENCE: A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS</title>
		<link>http://birdsongslaw.com/2012/02/02/domsetic-violence-comparative-analysis/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 13:01:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leonard Birdsong</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Immigration Law]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[asylum grounds]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Professor Birdsong&#8217;s student, Shellie Ponce, who was enrolled in my comparative Immigration Law class and my Refugee Law Seminar wrote an interesting and timely paper that compares rates of domestic violence and asylum claims in immigrant welcoming countries.  Read and learn more about it.  Ms. Ponce gave her permission to put her piece on my [...]]]></description>
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		<title>TOO MUCH DISCRETION VESTED IN IMMIGRATION JUDGES?</title>
		<link>http://birdsongslaw.com/2012/01/26/discretion-vested-immigration-judges/</link>
		<comments>http://birdsongslaw.com/2012/01/26/discretion-vested-immigration-judges/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 13:01:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leonard Birdsong</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Immigration Law]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[asylum grounds]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Michael Severe graduated from Barry Law in December 2011.  He was one of Professor Birdsong&#8217;s favorite students.  During Michael&#8217;s last semester he wrote a very interesting and well researched paper in the Refugee Law Seminar arguing that U.S. Immigration Judges have much too much discretionary powers.  I agree with him. Michael has given me permission to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A STUDENT WANTS THE END OF THE WET FOOT DRY FOOT POLICY</title>
		<link>http://birdsongslaw.com/2012/01/17/student-wet-foot-dry-foot-policy/</link>
		<comments>http://birdsongslaw.com/2012/01/17/student-wet-foot-dry-foot-policy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jan 2012 13:01:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leonard Birdsong</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Immigration Law]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[asylum grounds]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cuban asylum policy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[refugee law]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[One of my Refugee Law students, Minoru Ohye, has written an interesting  and timely paper wherein he argues that the U.S. should end what has been come to be called the &#8220;Wet Foot Dry Foot&#8221; policy toward accepting Cuban refugees.  Mr. Ohye was born in Cuba and escaped from there with his family as a boy.  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A PRIMER ON NORTH KOREA</title>
		<link>http://birdsongslaw.com/2012/01/11/primer-north-korea/</link>
		<comments>http://birdsongslaw.com/2012/01/11/primer-north-korea/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jan 2012 13:01:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leonard Birdsong</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Immigration Law]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Asylum Matters]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[North Korea]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[refugee law]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Most of us know little about North Korea.  However over the recent holiday period we learned that  North Korea&#8217;s leader,  Kim Jong Il, died after seventeen years of ruling over his impoverished country. His youngest son, Kim Jong Un has now taken over power. My refugee seminar student, Jessica Smith, has written and interesting and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>MR. PADILLA CHANGES THE IMMIGRANT’S WORLD</title>
		<link>http://birdsongslaw.com/2011/05/25/2764/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 May 2011 13:01:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leonard Birdsong</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Criminal Law]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Immigration Law]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Amrita Lamba is one of Professor Birdsong&#8217;s favorite students.  She graduated from Barry Law with her J.D. degree last Saturday.  Before her graduation she did a directed research project under my supervision.   Her research resulted in a  well written and informative article about the Padilla v. Kentucky case recently decided by the U.S. Supreme Court and how it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Child Soldiers Seeking Asylum/between a Rock and a Hard Place</title>
		<link>http://birdsongslaw.com/2011/01/26/child-soldiers-seeking-asylumbetween-rock-hard-place/</link>
		<comments>http://birdsongslaw.com/2011/01/26/child-soldiers-seeking-asylumbetween-rock-hard-place/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Jan 2011 13:01:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leonard Birdsong</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Immigration Law]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[asylum grounds]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Another of Professor Birdsong&#8217;s favorite studentss, Chris Cortolillo, has written an interesting paper on child soldiers who seek asylum in the United States.  Read it and learn something about the topic. Between a Rock and a Hard Place: The Challenges Facing Former Child Soldiers of the War on Terror in Seeking Asylum in the United [...]]]></description>
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		<title>An Immigration Scheme for Iraq</title>
		<link>http://birdsongslaw.com/2011/01/06/immigration-scheme-iraq/</link>
		<comments>http://birdsongslaw.com/2011/01/06/immigration-scheme-iraq/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Jan 2011 11:01:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leonard Birdsong</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Immigration Law]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Immigration law]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Immigration Law problems]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Problem           [N.B. Please do not undertake outside or additional research on the country of Iraq, or the makeup of the number of Shiites, Sunnis and Kurds listed in this problem.  Accept all facts in the problem herein as true and dispositive for purposes of this exercise.]         Assume for the purposes of this [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Recognizing Gender-Based Persecution as Grounds for Asylum</title>
		<link>http://birdsongslaw.com/2010/10/06/recognizing-genderbased-persecution-grounds-asylum/</link>
		<comments>http://birdsongslaw.com/2010/10/06/recognizing-genderbased-persecution-grounds-asylum/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Oct 2010 13:01:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leonard Birdsong</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Immigration Law]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[asylum for batterd women]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[asylum grounds]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[asylum trends]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Birdsong asylum research student]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Edita Pojani was a student in Professor Birdsong&#8217;s Refugee Law seminar last spring.  She wrote a very well written paper that  examines the issue of gender bias in asylum law.  Ms. Pojani is an advocate for a  better U.S. immigration policy that explicitly recognizes violations inflicted upon women as a valid grounds for asylum.  She has [...]]]></description>
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		<title>THE DILEMMA OF PARENT-CHILD FEMALE GENITAL MUTILIATION JUSRISPRUDENCE</title>
		<link>http://birdsongslaw.com/2010/09/29/dilemma-parentchild-female-genital-mutiliation-jusrisprudence/</link>
		<comments>http://birdsongslaw.com/2010/09/29/dilemma-parentchild-female-genital-mutiliation-jusrisprudence/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Sep 2010 13:01:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leonard Birdsong</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Immigration Law]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[asylum for batterd women]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Virginia Ponder, a student in Professor Birdsong&#8217;s spring Refugee Law seminar, has written an excellent paper that examines whether a parent who opposes female genital mutilation, and fears the mutilation of her child, raises a valid claim for protection under U.S. asylum law?  The circuit court responses thus far have been diverse.  Ms. Ponder has [...]]]></description>
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		<title>THE NECESSITY FOR GENDER RELATED ASYLUM PROVISIONS</title>
		<link>http://birdsongslaw.com/2010/09/22/necessity-gender-related-asylum-provisions/</link>
		<comments>http://birdsongslaw.com/2010/09/22/necessity-gender-related-asylum-provisions/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Sep 2010 13:01:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leonard Birdsong</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Immigration Law]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[asylum for batterd women]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last spring Amrita Lamba wrote an outstanding Refugee and Asylum Law Seminar paper concerning the necessity for gender related asylum claims that will protect women and girls from sexual gender based violence.  She has given permission to publish her paper here on the blog.  It is very well written.  Take a look and learn. Don’t [...]]]></description>
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