In the United States, police tracking migrants even in the courts-Liberation

The judge gave him an appointment in more than two years: « We see each other on October 28, 2027, at 9 am. » « In the morning? » Even judged good to clarify the translator from the screen where its silhouette sits on a fluorescent background. « Yes, in the morning », Support the magistrate by rolling with weariness, before advancing this teasing: « By then, you will still have time to set up your file. » Asylum seeker, Santiago (1) opine in a half-sourire borrowed, with this too strong voice, too full of counterfeit assurance-with which he damn upon many questions from the court-so as not to betray the exact opposite: the thick panic that bathes his carbon eyes. And yet, he heard the judge stress that his request for political asylum seems substantial, according to the criteria set by American law, and that he will only have to provide the evidence by the next time.

This Ecuadorian twenty-year-old therefore lifts his meter fifty and a few to pocket his convocation to this distant deadline for the regularization procedure in the United States-a country where he arrived on foot, at the end of 2023, via the southern desert of Arizona, and where he has benefited since a parole while waiting to be recognized or rejected by a completely saturated asylum system. And then, he leaves the courtroom as if contrary, slowly and feverish steps, hands sunk in his shot jacket. In the adjoining vestibule, it