Word: asylum
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...refugees were admitted "conditionally" for 60 days, thus allowing them time to file for political asylum; at the end of that period, the Immigration and Naturalization Service was to decide whether or not to grant it. Though there seemed little doubt last week that the Cuban boat people would eventually be granted permanent residence, Washington was clearly unhappy with their method of arrival. "What you have here is not a rational process," said State Department Spokesman Thomas Reston of the sealift. "What you have is Castro's solution to the problem...
...world's latest refugee saga began three weeks ago, when an estimated 10,800 Cubans jammed into the Peruvian embassy compound in Havana seeking political asylum after guards were temporarily removed from the embassy's gates. The sight of these would-be exiles, demanding to leave Fidel Castro's so-called paradise, was deeply embarrassing to the Cuban President. With the world watching, he had no choice but to grant them exit visas. Eight nations eventually agreed to admit 6,250 of the exiles; the U.S. said that it would take 3,500, the largest single group...
...because, unlike Cubans, they do not qualify as "political" refugees. Deportation proceedings, however, have been held up pending the outcome of legal proceedings. Last week a class-action suit was brought by the Haitians in a Miami federal court. The refugees argue that they should be eligible for political asylum because the regime of President-for-Life Jean-Claude ("Baby Doc") Duvalier is one of the most repressive in the Caribbean...
...return to his tribe so that the Prophet might avoid even a faint suspicion that he had taken Rafi as a hostage. Muhammad declared flatly, "I do not break treaties, nor do I make prisoners of envoys." The Koran 9:6 insists that even a religious enemy be granted asylum and conveyed to safety...
...visit to the embassy, President Fidel Castro told the asylum seekers that they would all be given visas to leave if other countries would accept them. He also assured them that they could move freely out of the embassy, but many refused to budge, fearful that they would not be readmitted or would be beaten up by the pro-regime bullyboys who waited just outside. Meanwhile, Peruvian officials, pleading that they could not possibly accommodate all the refugees, called an emergency meeting of the Andean pact nations. At week's end all five members -Venezuela, Ecuador, Colombia, Bolivia...