Steve was quoted by Newsday in NYC Migrant Crisis: For a Migrant Father and His Sons, a Year of Struggle, Fear and Hope in New York (available by subscription). Many asylum applicants have no written evidence that could qualify them for asylum, he said. “It’s very hard to get the documents from your home country proving that either you have been persecuted or you have a well-founded fear of persecution. How many people can get a note from their torturer saying, ‘This is why I tortured you?’ ” Despite President Trump’s vows to deport millions of people, the father and his sons who are the subject of this article are “safer than other people” and cannot be deported until after a judge hears their cases, he said.
