Word: alien
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...territories, their radio antennas whipping like a fly-fisherman's rod with a trout on the line. The soldiers' weapons bristled from the sides of the jeeps, and they wore heavy, stone-proof hard plastic helmets with wraparound clear visors that hid their faces -- a space- alien effect. ''We should go back to see what happens,'' the passenger said, unthinkingly. The driver lit a fresh cigarette from the one now burning down to his fingertips and drove impassively on, away from the violence. No, the shabab would think we had brought the army back with us. Anyway the driver knew...
...always come primarily from the West. But the state itself was built in the overwhelmingly Arab, Islamic Levant. The creation of Israel dispersed another people, the Palestinian Arabs. At the moment of its birth, Israel was fighting for its life. The neighboring Arab states tried to annihilate the alien creation in its midst. At the end of the War of Independence in 1948, the Israelis held a C-shaped majority of the land that ran from Galilee in the north to the Sinai Peninsula in the south, leaving the Arabs only a central ear from Jerusalem east to the Jordan...
...some sham marriages, a love-stricken citizen is victimized by a spouse who marries only to gain permanent residency. Some American men, for example, send away for so-called mail-order brides and are given the gate soon after their wives receive permanent status. Another marriage fraud involves an alien who pays a U.S. citizen to marry him or her to circumvent INS rules. The foreigner then arranges a quick divorce. In August the INS deported the head of a West Coast ring that had arranged an estimated 70 marriages, for $3,000 to $5,000 a wedding...
...eliminate these abuses, the marriage fraud act creates a two-year "conditional" permanent residency status for aliens who marry Americans. The foreign spouse must report to the INS for a second interview after the trial period; only then does the Government issue final approval. In another provision of the new bill, if an alien happens to be in deportation proceedings at the time of marriage, he or she must return home for two years before becoming eligible for a green card. To cut down on mail fraud, the law requires prospective alien mates to have personally met their future American...
Many lawyers remain unenthusiastic about the new regulations. Says Margaret Wong, a Cleveland attorney: "If the alien is smart, the couple won't file for divorce for two years." Others feel the law further reduces aliens to a lower caste by treating their vows of love as suspect and second-rate. Trevor Scott and Naseem Saunders are a case in point. A native of Jamaica, Scott, 37, applied for a visa at the U.S. consulate in Kingston to travel to Chicago to marry Saunders, 47. But a consular official decided Scott was marrying the older woman as a shortcut into...