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	<title>The Golden Door &#187; Asylum/refugees</title>
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		<title>The stranger who was once us</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Feb 2020 14:11:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Djung Tran</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Following is an excerpt of my remarks as president of the Asian Pacific American Bar Association of Pennsylvania (APABA-PA), delivered at a Lunar New Year Banquet last night, telling part of my immigrant story: Many of you may know that citizenship and immigration law is my area of practice.  I myself am an immigrant to [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Perspective from a State Department officer</title>
		<link>http://blog.tranlawassociates.com/2017/02/02/perspective-state-department-officer/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2017 16:43:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Djung Tran</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In my last blog post, &#8220;Trump’s deliberate precipitation of an immigration crisis,&#8221; I made the case that the &#8220;extreme vetting&#8221; called for in President Trump&#8217;s Executive Order of January 27, 2017, banning immigrants from seven countries, was already in place.  I based this on my experience as an immigration attorney working with visa applicants. Now, [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Trump&#8217;s deliberate precipitation of an immigration crisis</title>
		<link>http://blog.tranlawassociates.com/2017/01/30/trumps-precipitation-immigration-crisis/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2017 22:47:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Djung Tran</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Since President Trump was inaugurated on January 20, 2017, his actions have turned U.S. immigration into a nightmare for countless numbers of lawful immigrants and visa holders and arriving refugees, and even for naturalized U.S. citizens from certain countries targeted by President Trump.  This does not even take into account those currently being processed for [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Post Script to Consular Nonreviewability</title>
		<link>http://blog.tranlawassociates.com/2013/07/07/post-script-consular-nonreviewability/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.tranlawassociates.com/2013/07/07/post-script-consular-nonreviewability/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Jul 2013 14:45:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Djung Tran</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This episode of This American Life perfectly illustrates the sometimes absurd communications that visa applicants must deal with to get a chance of immigrating to the United Sttates.]]></description>
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		<title>Review of &#8220;De Novo &#8211; mas alla de las fronteras (beyond borders)&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://blog.tranlawassociates.com/2013/03/29/review-de-novo-mas-alla-de-las-fronteras-beyond-borders/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.tranlawassociates.com/2013/03/29/review-de-novo-mas-alla-de-las-fronteras-beyond-borders/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Mar 2013 17:40:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Djung Tran</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I saw the play &#8220;De Novo &#8211; mas allas de las fronteras (beyond borders)&#8221; last night.  It was a beautiful, touching, realistic depiction of what some undocumented immigrant youth face when they are placed in deportation proceedings, produced by Houses on the Moon theater company. There are so many different meanings of &#8220;de novo&#8221; that [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Dos Erres:  An international investigation impacting citizenship and asylum</title>
		<link>http://blog.tranlawassociates.com/2012/09/28/dos-erres-international-investigation-impacting-citizenship-asylum/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.tranlawassociates.com/2012/09/28/dos-erres-international-investigation-impacting-citizenship-asylum/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Sep 2012 12:11:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Djung Tran</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is a lengthy but fascinating read:  &#8220;Finding Oscar:  Massacre, Memory and Justice in Guatemala.&#8221; It is about a massacre committed by an army unit in Guatemala in 1982, and two young boys who survived the massacre because they were taken by soldiers responsible for the massacres and raised by the soldiers&#8217; families.  One boy, [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>A tribute to a Vietnamese mother on Mother&#8217;s Day</title>
		<link>http://blog.tranlawassociates.com/2012/05/13/tribute-vietnamese-mother-mothers-day/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.tranlawassociates.com/2012/05/13/tribute-vietnamese-mother-mothers-day/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 13 May 2012 12:28:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Djung Tran</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of my favorite news magazines is The Week.  I was an early subscriber, when it was a very slim compilation of the week&#8217;s news, opinions, and reviews  from diverse sources, and had very few ads.  It has bulked up since then &#8211; mostly with ads, but still retains its essential character of delivering relevant [&#8230;]]]></description>
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