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Syed: Alien workers who fear persecution have option
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Posted on Feb 28 2012
By Ferdie de la Torre
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Reporter
Alien workers who are facing removal cases and fear persecution in their country of origin may have a good chance of getting a favorable ruling from the U.S. Immigration Court on Saipan, according to Rabby Syed yesterday.
Syed, president of United Workers Movement Inc.-NMI, said that he learned from attorney Mun Sun Park that a U.S. Immigration Court judge had canceled deportation orders for a Pakistani national and a Chinese national Friday last week.
Syed said the Pakistani informed the court that he fears persecution if he is deported to his country as he is a Sunni and is married to a Shia.
Pakistan has the second largest Shia Muslim population in the world. Sunni-Shia relations have been reportedly marked by both cooperation, conflict, and deadly violence.
With respect to the Chinese national, Syed said the respondent has more than one child so he fears that if he goes back to China, he will be persecuted.
Syed said the Immigration Court ruling is a good sign to those who have removal cases but have persecution problems in their countries.
“They should bring to the Immigration Court’s attention their problems so it might make some differences in the ruling,” he said.
Syed said he believes that there are many alien workers on island who are out of immigration status and are facing removal cases but fear of being persecuted in their home countries.
