email from Dallas attorney John Wheat Gibson, Jan. 10, 2007
BICE [the Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement] has announced it will deport the Suleiman family as soon as it arranges a flight. BICE is looking for the [5-year-old, American-born] twin daughters so it can fly them to Jordan with their parents and brother. BICE refuses to wait for the Board of Immigration Appeals to decide their pending motion to reopen.
Adel Suleiman, you may recall, was recognized as a refugee by the UNHCR, and when he applied for asylum in the US, the asylum officer who interviewed him recommended approval, but was overruled by a supervisor because of a blanket policy of the Houston Asylum Office to deny all Palestinian asylum applications, regardless of the merits, since to approve them might embarrass the government of Israel. . . .
John Wheat Gibson
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Dear John:
How are these sorts of messages conveyed? . . . . Also, information has been flowing quickly, so I’ve missed the fact of twin daughters. Can you say any more about who they are or why they would be difficult to locate?
Texas Civil Rights Review
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We all have been concentrating on the Ibrahim file. Mr. Suleiman is the diabetic in Oklahoma. BICE officer Calvin Meredith told me he is in Oklahoma County Jail, Oklahoma City. Phone (405)713-1930. Meredith is
trying to arrange deportation. The daughters are twins, 5-years-old, United States citizens. They have been with a relative since their parents and brother were kidnapped. Mr. Suleiman has not been allowed to make a telephone call since December 20, 2006, when he called his sister-in-law in Fort Worth. So far I have received nothing but the run-around when I call
the Oklahoma County Jail to try to set up a telephone conference with Mr. Suleiman.
There is a signed and notarized copy of the attached affidavit in our files.
John Wheat Gibson
Texas Civil Rights Review 
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