Shmael Turkhan v. Loretta E. Lynch

WOOD, Chief Judge.

Bureaucracy’s “specific nature,” Max Weber said, “develops the more perfectly the more [it] is ‘dehumanized,’ the more completely it succeeds in eliminating from official business love, hatred, and all purely personal, irrational and emotional elements which escape calculation.” Max Weber, Bureaucracy, in FROM Max Weber: Essays in SoCiology 196, 215-16 (H.H. Gerth & C. Wright Mills eds. & trans., 1991). By this standard, the government’s treatment of this case has achieved perfection.

In 1979, Shmael Isaac Turkhan, an Assyrian Christian and citizen of Iraq, immigrated to the…