Monday, October 26, 2009

Mass. man says Brazilian husband denied US asylum

Mass. man says Brazilian husband denied US asylum - Yahoo! News
BOSTON – A gay Brazilian man has been denied asylum by the Obama administration and won't be reunited with his Massachusetts husband in the U.S., the husband said Monday.

Tim Coco said Attorney General Eric Holder did not act on a Friday deadline in the case of Genesio "Junior" Oliveira, effectively denying the 30-year-old Brazilian man's request for asylum in the U.S. on humanitarian grounds.

"We needed the Attorney General to make a decision on whether Junior could come home," said Coco, 48, of Haverhill. "He didn't take this request seriously."

The Justice Department did not immediately return messages.....



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