Immigration
Jun. 25, 2009
Delegating Leads to Judge's Reversal
A federal appeals court said the judge should have taken testimony from a transsexual who says she was raped and abused by the police in her native Philippines.
By Sandra Hernandez
Daily Journal Staff Writer When Edgar Lacsina Pangilinan walked into an immigration courtroom inside a remote Arizona detention center, the transsexual detainee stood alone. Unable to pay an attorney, she listened carefully as a government attorney questioned her for hours about her asylum application. Pangilinan waited to tell her side of the story, of life in the Philippines, of abuse by police, and of a gang rape.
Daily Journal Staff Writer When Edgar Lacsina Pangilinan walked into an immigration courtroom inside a remote Arizona detention center, the transsexual detainee stood alone. Unable to pay an attorney, she listened carefully as a government attorney questioned her for hours about her asylum application. Pangilinan waited to tell her side of the story, of life in the Philippines, of abuse by police, and of a gang rape.
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