BURGER v. GONZALES

498 F.3d 131

A Collection of Files Poems

I………. “what to wear to an immigration interview”   II……….. “DO SHOW UP ON TIME” III……… “COMMUNICATING ACROSS A SECOND LANGUAGE” IV……… Photocopy of a Document In Perspective V……….. i. “How To Determine Credible Fear”

ii. Description of Agendas VI………. “RECALL A MOMENT OF FEAR”

VII……… “Communication can be broken down into two components, verbal and non-verbal”

VIII……….. “the concept of nationality, which we associate quite naturally with that of the passport, is much more recent”

                                                                                                                             

                 “What  to  wear  to  an  immigration  interview”  

       We  must  be  desirable  candidates  We  must  approach  it  from  the  right  angle  Turn  the  printer  on!  there  is  already  a  coffee-­‐mark  on  this  application  .    Full Name: Date of Birth: Country of Origin:  Introduce  yourself  as  the  perfect  candidate.  Cute,  clever,  well-­‐groomed.  (Fig  1.)  Our handwriting is impeccable!  They  photographed  the  perfect  moment  of  mitosis    when  nuclei  divide  to  form  two  from  one  whose  twin    is  much  meeker.    Noted: the process of mitosis is fast and highly complex (Fig 2.) We are two cells under microscopic exhibition, where scientists study the origin of our sex and measure inferiority through brain size and the smell of our marrow1. They pin us with sterile tacks by our fleshiest parts to Styrofoam boards running blood tests to see, if, we, know, how, to, use, the, comma,

                                                                                                               1  Bean, Robert Benton. Journel of Anatomy. “A racial peculiarity in the pole of the temporal lobe of the negro brain”. 1914.  

Fig1.  Mother  and  Daughter  pose  for  the  camera  

Fig2. Mitosis in its Telophase phase. The primary result of mitosis is the transferring of the parent cell's genome into two daughter cells. These two cells are identical and do not differ in any way from the original parent cell.  

or how to eat grapefruit lifting our arms so they can remove our shirts to see the size of our breasts to determine if we would assimilate.  Science in charge of regulating hosts coming in and out of borders laminated with Purell-Patrol armed with guns they are told to use to kill parasites at their discretion                            the  purpose  of  procedure/the  pageantry  of  scientific  method                              the  purpose  of  pageantry/the  scientific  method  of  procedure     the  scientific  method  of  purpose/the  procedure  of  pageantry                                  

     

   “DO  SHOW  UP  ON  TIME”    

 we wait. they tell us to wait even after we wait. and we wait, waiting, in the room where we wait, for the waiting to wait itself out, so that we can leave to wait more in the room of our apartment, to wait more in dorm rooms, to wait more in public spaces where the law is you cannot loiter wait. BEWARE the wave of immigration BEWARE the new-wave of immigration We reached the shores on the wave We reached the shores on the new-wave We reached Immigration on the new shore When i turned from poet to pirate When testimony turned into a series of footnotes When they called us Russians So i thought we were Russians When they asked us if we were speaking Portuguese

Serbia/Siberia Slavs/Slaves

And there are more of us coming!

They watch us run with our pants at our ankles dropping applications off in time (in their time) betting on who will fumble from the weight of the world and who will forfeit because they can’t control their bladder

And there are more of us cominggggggggggggggggggggggggggggg! but there is not enough time but there is not enough space and there is not enough space or time to talk about space and time.

If a Refugee in a forest falls but no one is there to hear him, which State will burn his wood for fire if his State of Origin no longer exists? And there are more of us coming! Prepare for a shipment of poor and wounded Slavs! Maybe you shouldn’t have bombed us! Don’t talk to me about states, statues, status… I am vending and venting – M&Ms and Poetry! Don’t call us communists – our church wear is freshly ironed and hung and waiting! and vending and venting what is a girl to do with all this time!

“COMMUNICATING ACROSS A SECOND LANGUAGE” Ругала се шерпа лонцу, широка му уста2. Не можe и паре и јаре3 Свуда пођи, својој кући дођи4 Уздај се у се и у своје кљусе!5 Ружној девојци огледало криво6 Најтамније је испод свјеће7 Кад мачке нема, мишеви коло воде8 Ко вино вечера, воду доручкује9 Ивер не пада далеко од кладе10 Нема мирног детета ни младе бабе11 Иcпeци пa peци12 Лепа реч и гвоздена врата отвара13 Дала баба динар да се ухвати у коло, а два да се пусти.14 Где je много бабица, килава cу деца15. Само слога Србина спасава16    

                                                                                                               2 A pan was mocking a pot because his mouth is big 3 You can’t have the goat and the money 4 Go everywhere, but come back home 5 Trust yourself and your horse! 6 An ugly girl blames the mirror  7 It is the darkest underneath the candle 8 When cat is absent, mice dance 9 Who has wine for dinner, he has water for breakfast 10A splinter doesn't land far from the trunk 11 There's no quiet child nor young grandmother. 12 Bake it and then say it 13 A kind word opens even the iron doors 14 Grandma gave a dinar to dance, and two to stop 15 Where there are many midwives, children will be feeble 16 Only unity saves the Serbs  

                       

all  who  are  granted  asylum  must  meet  the  definition  of  a  refugee.  

   

“How to Determine Credible Fear” A. IF IT IS NOT DEATH IT IS NOT FEAR , IF IT IS NOT RAPE IT IS NOT FEAR “…there is nothing to fear but fear itself.”- some American (Fig 3.) Fig 3. (viii) use of silence; timing I  hold    I  hold  my    I  hold  my  mother  I  hold  my  mother’s  cold  I  hold  my  mother’s  cold  hands  They  are  always  cold  They  are  always  so  cold  I  find  comfort  in  the  cold  I  find  comfort  in  the  similarity  of  skin    I  find  comfort  in  the  similarity  of  cold  skin  And  in  the  rareness  of  holding  each  other  And  in  the  rareness  of  holding  each  other’s  cold  skin  And  the  tragedy  that  leads  up  to  it  And  the  similarity  of  tragedy  that  leads  up  to  it  And  the  similarity  of  cold  tragedy  that  leads  up  to  it  Years  later  I  will  realize  that  there  is  no  better  feeling  than  that  of  holding  your  own  mother’s  hand  Years  later  I  will  realize  too  late  that  there  is  no  better  feeling  than  that  of  holding  your  own  mother’s  hand     Don’t you, too, have a mother?

B. AGENDAS  

i. Asylum officer

a. to finish the interview in approximately 45 minutes            

ii. Asylum  Applicant    

a.    recall  a  moment  of  severe  tragedy  that  caused  you  to  leave  your  home,      family,  culture,  identity  –  orally  describing  it  to  a  stranger  who  more  or    less  does  not  understand  your  translation  of    pain  (your  freedom      depends  on  it!)  in  approximately  45  minutes    

“RECALL A MOMENT OF FEAR” I didn’t know what it was until you gave it a name , flashing pear shaped light bulbs in order to name the bone before it was discarded >moslim< You called it t h e p e r m a n e n t w a r often violent exertions of nationalist identity (based on a noble idea) I found the bone in the structure, in the foundation at the drawing of the borders made by men in gold rings and thick feet on private property (you came and you carved) You remove the crime material and the crime is named a response You remove the crime material and the crime exists in the memory of few You remove the crime material and the crime does not exist Then I notice the missing neighbors You name it “your Yugoslavia” You name everyone “victims of war” You name Yugoslavia “a state of victims” You name yourself “a victim” I  asked  my  grandmother  to  sing   I didn’t know what it was until we stopped going to school because Nationalists bombed the center of town I didn’t know what it was until Mischa came home with missing fingers I didn’t know what it was until Zlata taught me how to boil the salt out of a rock

I didn’t know what it was until I tried to find God I didn’t know what it was until I saw my grandmother cry I didn’t know what it was until they called us “children of war” I didn’t know what it was until Zlata taught me how to mourn the loss of family But who asks ordinary people what they know? Politics only asks its own people.

“Communication can be broken down into two components, verbal and non-verbal” 1. Verbal a. linguistic (i) vocabulary (ii) grammar b. paralinguistic (i) manipulation of speech: e.g., volume of speech, rate of speech, pitch/tone, stress (ii) extra- speech sounds: e.g., groans, sighs, laughter, crying, whistling, and other sounds such as “huh” and “uh.” 2. Non-verbal a. movements that substitute for language, i.e. body language

(i) facial expressions (smiles, frowns, etc.)

(ii) eye contact (iii) body movement (iv) posture (v) physical distance (vi) use of environment (tapping fingers on tabletop, drawing, etc.) (vii) touching (viii) use of silence; timing b. written language

(For purposes of this training, we will not discuss written language)

“the concept of nationality, which we associate quite naturally with that of the passport, is much more recent”

that what is modern is perhaps not modern behold the document: the document came out of the Medieval Ages, identity: a medieval coinage

belonging to religion of state belonging to state of religion belonging

travel by buggy across lines of sand document in hand what is a world with different mechanisms? i carry you in a red sleeve i carry you in a sleeve i carry you , you telling me it is illegal to cry over spilt ink in pink at the flesh of the heart of the city, still burningx3 cropped by the alphabet and coat of arms i end up looking like You fraud and foreign in the forensics of my thumb’s print because the textbook tells me that we did bad things and i don’t do bad things if i burn it did it ever exist? i want to float in a space undefined and undetermined to lose everyone who won’t miss me and especially those who will where history is censored where victimization is a spectacle where the document does not authenticate the individual but authenticates the authenticator why is it that in Belgrade we prefer bathrooms with mirrors?