To: To the asylum hearing officer
Sumud + Samah (Levantine)
January 28, 2026
You denied me on the first interview. I won on appeal. I forgive the denial. I forgive my own months of believing the denial was about me and not about the quota. It was about the quota. Raja Shehadeh writes of legal systems that perform justice without delivering it. You were performing. I do not stay angry at performers. I stay angry at the producer. The producer is the policy.