Asylum, Withholding of Removal, and the Convention Against Torture
In the past few years, we have seen a huge influx of people coming from the Middle East and from Central America seeking asylum in the USA because they claim to have suffered persecution, or fear that they will suffer persecution, due to their race, relig
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Conducting Psychological Assessments for U.S. Immigration Cases
Conducting Psychological Assessments for U.S. Immigration Cases
Robert S. Meyers
Conducting Psychological Assessments for U.S. Immigration Cases
Robert S. Meyers New York Psychological Wellness, PC Bayside, NY, USA
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The book is dedicated to my Family: My wife—Susan (third generation U.S. citizen) My children—David, Daniel, Jonathan, and Jeremy (seventh generation U.S. citizens) My Parents: Allan and Adrienne (thanks, Dad, for reading each chapter and sending your helpful comments!) In loving Memory of my Grandparents: Esther and Nathan Fried Alma and Leon Meyers (my immigrant grandfather)
Preface
As I sit down to write this preface, the world is engulfed in a pandemic and the flow of human life has been slowed to a trickle. Domestic travel is curbed; international travel is at a near standstill. People are “sheltering in place” around the world, and here in the United States we are working from home or are out of work altogether. Despite this overwhelming crisis, anti-immigrant sentiment continues to spew from the current federal administration and from points across the country. Ironically, as the immigrants of this nation are vilified by the President, it is the immigrant population, in large part, exposing themselves to the deadly virus, that continues to work and keep this country operating while others stay at home. In 2012, the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), a relief program for the children of immigrants brought in
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