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...last year, China and the North acted to reduce the outflow. The crackdown apparently began after 468 asylum seekers who had holed up in Vietnam were airlifted to Seoul. North Korea broke off talks with officials from the South, tightened its border controls and increased executions of those accused of people smuggling, according to NKNet, a Seoul-based NGO. China has also beefed up its border patrols, according to refugees. Last October, the Chinese government was operating half a dozen detention facilities inside military bases near the frontier and was repatriating up to 300 North Koreans every week, according...
...mothers followed a path taken by thousands of other Nigerians, and in 2001 sought refuge in Ireland with their six children. They lived on government rations in a trailer park built to house refugees on the outskirts of Athlone, a sleepy midlands town, while awaiting a verdict on their asylum applications. Community worker Salome Mbugua Henry describes the scene as "kind of like an open prison system." The two women took vocational classes and made Irish friends. But after four years in bureaucratic limbo, their new lives evaporated in March, when they were deported with their 5-year-old sons...
...prosecution. But Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo says that, short of "irrefutable evidence" that Taylor has committed crimes from Nigeria, he will extradite Taylor only to Liberia. "The President keeps asking to see the evidence," says Obasanjo spokeswoman Remi Oyo, who points out that Nigeria agreed to grant Taylor asylum under pressure from Western nations. "All we get is statements and soundbites on television. But we need to see evidence, or we will not be seen as credible and honorable members of the international community." Nigeria may have a point, but don't expect the war-crimes tribunal...
Illegal aliens would be hardest hit, by far. Besides the requirement to prove legal status in order to qualify for a driver's license, the bill would raise new barriers for asylum seekers and strip away judicial review of many federal deportation orders against immigrants. All of which helps explain how such controversial ID standards could pass into law. Many Republicans who would normally oppose anything that smacks of a national ID have rolled over in exchange for the immigration controls...
...myriad fences and neo-Georgian facades make Harvard appear to be the ultimate asylum from violence of all types. Ivy walls, after all, house books and minds, not hate. In a homophobic, biphobic, and transphobic world, however, even the safest places are not exempt from hate crimes. Moreover, we should all remember that Galo was not alone, or even in a couple—he was with a group of friends. Even when we are in what seem to be relatively risk-free situations, we must continue to protect our safety...