Dear Editor:
Please find attached a letter by Senators Santorum, Kennedy and
Brownback to the Bureau of Citizenship and Immigration Services Director
Eduardo Aguirre cc:ed to Under Secretary Asa Hutchinson regarding Malik
Jarno, a mentally retarded Guinean orphan, for your reference.
This letter follows individual correspondence on Malik's plight sent by
a total of thirteen lawmakers, Amnesty International members and the
ARC, a national association for the mentally retarded. The thirteen
other lawmakers who have written to the Department of Homeland Security
are the following: Chaka Fattah (D-PA), Frank Wolf (R-VA), Pete Sessions
(R-TX) and ten members of the Congressional Human Rights Caucus, Caucus
Chair Tom Lantos (D-CA) and members Christopher H. Smith (R-NJ), Todd
Platts (R-PA), Donald M. Payne (D-NJ), Dennis J. Kucinch (D-OH), John
Conyers Jr. (D-MI), Betsy McCollum (D-MI), Barbara Lee (D-CA), Sheila
Jackson Lee (D-TX) and Elijah E. Cummings (D-MD). All have urged
redress in Malik's unique plight.
I thank you for your consideration.
Christopher Nugent, Holland & Knight LLP
Washington, D.C.
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