Kenya in 1993, later marrying a United States citizen and coming to America. Through a series of unfortunate events, the client’s conditional permanent resident status was terminated, and he was ultimately ordered to be removed on September 21, 2011. In 2017, he was detained and summarily deported as one of the Somali 92 individuals and, unfortunately, like most of the Somali 92 individuals, deported while his appeals were pending. Fredrikson lawyers agreed to the representation of these clients because they felt it was important that the individuals had the opportunity to have access to justice and the court system to ensure that the rule of law would be followed. Former Fredrikson paralegal Brenda Haberman provided critical legal and emotional support throughout the process. Additional clients were assisted by Sam Andre, James Brand, Lukas Boehning, Adam Gyurisin, Sage O’Neil, Debra Schneider, paralegals Barb MacInnis and Diana Bospachieva.
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Olivia Cares
arbara Marchevsky and Olivia Cares assisted a Cameroonian woman who sought asylum in the United States after becoming a target of state violence directed at activists in the “anglophone” region of Cameroon. Although she was simply a member of a student health advocacy group, she was misidentified as a protester and arrested with a large group of students protesting suppression of the region by the francophone dominating party. She was then driven into the bush where she and the other female students were violently raped, resulting in her hospitalization and ultimately blinding her in one eye. Attempts to levy complaints with the local and national police forces were met with additional detentions and threats. When police groups began to frequent her home to make repeated threats to her family, she decided to leave the country. The client’s claim for asylum was submitted in 2018, she had her interview in 2019 and she was granted affirmative asylum in the United States in July of 2020. Today she works in the healthcare 3
