Gay Immigrant Faces Deportation

This week, I explored Immigration Equality.org and learned a lot of new information that I did not know previously. One article that caught my eye was one titled "Gay Immigrant Seeks Asylum with Deportation to Iran Pending". The article spoke of a young gay man, who has been growing up in the United States almost all of his life and has been attending a state university, was found of being an illegal citizen. At this exact time he was just coming out about being gay. He is now required by the U.S. to receive treatment at an asylum, while he awaits his fate on being sent back to Iraq. In Iraq, it is considered a capital crime to be homosexual and therefore if he was to be sent back he would be facing death. The saddest part about the whole thing is that only 14% of immigrants with this same kind of situation are not sent back to their homeland. It makes me incredibly sad to read about the problem this man is facing. I am the same age as this young man and I could not imagine having to face the possibility of my life ending in a few short months. I really can not believe the United States can do this when he has been living here for so long already. I will definitely being following this young man's story and what his outcome will be. His trial date is set for sometime this late summer and he will remain in the asylum receiving treatment up until that final day.