Requesting Immigration Relief The Department Of Homeland...

Requesting immigration relief, as portrayed by the Department of Homeland Security, seems to be a humanitarian and easy process, described as follows: 1. The applicant presents to a immigration office or checkpoint requesting immigration relief. 2. An immigration officer, a social worker and if needed an interpreter that are trained in cultural sensitivity, go through some paperwork 3. The immigration officer conducts an extensive interview to the applicant 4. The immigration officer analyzes the case and decides if the story is coherent with the evidence. 5. The immigration officer approves asylum and schedules the audience with an immigration judge OR the immigration officer denies asylum because his story lacks credibility, and sends to†¦show more content†¦He and ten more people (men, women and a child) were put handcuffs, so tight that at a point his hands were â€Å"purple† and then they were transferred to a detention facility. He spent almost two weeks in the detention facility; he remembers that the first night, they gave him food, he finished everything and even licked the plate, because he was still hungry. He remembers the officers laughed for a while after seeing him. He tells the place had cells and a couple of beds per each. They were uncomfortable, but anyway he fall asleep; the cell-keepers woke him up really early, and he was placed in a small room with people he had never seen before. At first, he felt comfortable speaking in Spanish with them, but after a couple of minutes it got freezing inside. After a while an officer came in and said (in Spanish) something like â€Å"it can get colder, and all of you will be here for a while, unless anyone of you feels like talking about deportation†. He remembers, that despite being so cold, he began sweating, he had avoided even thinking on that word since he left El Salvador, after his brother was murdered for defending him against gang