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The Darfur crisis hits home in Fort Wayne, in a good read from ABC News.

According to Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration spokeswoman Gina Wills, the United States identifies certain people around the world who are eligible to be resettled here as refugees. Kimo, on the other hand, came to America first and now has thrown himself on the mercy of the court.

"In order to seek asylum they have to be here, and then they apply to be a refugee," Wills said.

The process is never guaranteed.

Although Kimo is a college-educated farmer, he cannot get a work permit because of his status. He came with a student visa, but could not afford $25,000 for Indiana University and it expired. He hopes that once he gets asylum, he can work and at least send money home to his family.

OK, I know this is fish-in-a-barrel stuff, but we have a political system that looks the other way over millions who come here illegally to escape mere corruption, graft and incompetence, but puts one person who has escaped real oppression and torture through all these hoops? What's wrong with this picture?