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This Jenner & Block profile follows Shahid Haque's pro bono asylum work for people fleeing persecution in Togo, the Democratic Republic of Congo, and Eritrea. It describes seven successful cases and the practical difficulty of proving persecution when clients are traumatized, records are scarce, and the stakes include detention or return to danger.
Published before Shahid moved to Montana and founded Border Crossing Law Firm, the article documents the asylum work that first drew him deeply into immigration practice. The problems it describes - detention, access to counsel, trauma, and demanding evidentiary rules - remained important in his later representation and advocacy.