Hi Jojo,
I am learning your story through the Seattle Times. First of all, please do not give up. Keep fighting. Second, I am no lawyer so the following paragraphs are my suggestions based on a living experience under communist regime during eighty and early ninety. (There may be typo in my writing or sentences are worded awkwardly)
Reading your case and think your legal has to do a lengthy and unprecedented work in order to convince the judges and the court that you are here in US not simple based on a economic goal but rather based on a firm belief of a true democracy and freedom. I think the legal team has to provide the following facts (if has not doing that).
1. In Vietnam during eighty and early ninety one have 2 choices:
A. Demand for true democracy or express freedom of speech and religion then will be captured overnight without a due process
B. Escape the country to another country like US so they can live and uphold those aforementioned principles.
2. The word definition of "police harassment" has completely different meaning between a country with true democracy like US and a country with superficial democracy like VN. Translation of the word "police harassment" literally from Vietnamese language to English may not good enough
Facts (Can we prove by providing a letter with signatures of people who live during that period)
In VN during eighty and early ninety, one can be arrested during the night and no one know why
There were no appointed attorney to defend the defendant
The defendant would be hold in-definitively without a sentence

Those facts show that there was no due process in Vietnam during that time. Thus, it was not simply a matter of "police harassment" but it was political oppression. That was how communist party keeps people under control by spying and arresting people who may concern about the democracy without a due process.
Best Wishes -P

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