Word: asylum
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Administration seemed squarely at odds with itself last week over the prickly issue of refugees from Central America. In Florida, Perry Rivkind, the district director of the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service, said that he would not deport citizens from Nicaragua who seek political asylum in the U.S. In Arizona, the Justice Department wound up its prosecution of eleven church workers accused of smuggling aliens from El Salvador and Guatemala into the U.S. -- even though these illegal immigrants also claimed that they feared persecution in their home countries...
...view of the persecution claims of anyone fleeing a Communist country. The Justice Department is considering a new interpretation of the 1980 Refugee Act that would establish a "presumption" that aliens fleeing a Communist regime have a well-founded fear of persecution that would meet the requirement for political asylum. The ins's Rivkind, who stopped deportation proceedings against eight Nicaraguans in Miami last week, apparently jumped the gun on the policy shift, since Attorney General Edwin Meese has yet to sign off on the new interpretation...
...Administration's changing sanctuary policy may well run afoul of Congress. "I think it is unfair as hell to permit blanket asylum for Nicaraguans and not for Salvadorans," protested Arizona's Democratic Senator , Dennis DeConcini. He has a bill pending in the Senate Judiciary Committee that would give Salvadoran refugees the same status as that being considered for Nicaraguans...
...common knowledge that the U.S., because of its own economic interests and show of power, controls governments in Central America," says Sister Rosemarie Cummins, founder of the organization. Cummins, says that it would be contradictory for the American government to grant political asylum to people who who have fled the very countries America supports...
...federal government, which has deported almost all Salvadorans who have applied for political asylum under the law, claims the illegal aliens are economic rather than political refugees who seek jobs in this country...