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...have fewer people paying in and more people taking money out," says Reiner Klingholz, director of the Berlin Institute for World Population and Global Development. Klingholz says the solution is to increase immigration. A new immigration law will allow some 200,000 immigrants--highly skilled economic migrants and asylum seekers--into the country each year...
...July 28, a traveling salesman from Laos left Bangkok for asylum in the U.S. Va Char Yang, 38, now lives in Oroville, California, with his wife, Mai Vang, and three small children. A year earlier, in Laos, he had been sentenced to 20 years in prison for crimes including possession of illegal explosives and drugs. At the time, U.S. State Department spokesman Richard Boucher said that the trial fell "well short of international standards of jurisprudence." Va Char had been arrested while escorting two European journalists and their American Hmong translator out of the jungle in Xaysomboune Special Zone...
...decision goes against Fischer, Bosnitch says his group will launch more legal challenges. They are also trying to get Fischer valid travel documents from a third country, which might prove to be a virtual get-out-of-jail-free card. While requests to a variety of countries for asylum have so far come to nothing, Bosnitch says a German passport remains a possibility: "Because Bobby's father was a German citizen, Bobby is a German citizen. But since Bobby has never asserted that citizenship before, he doesn't have a passport. We are in the process of collecting the necessary...
...North Korea was already displaying customary prickliness after South Korea gave asylum last month to 468 North Korean defectors who had fled their homeland and taken temporary refuge in Vietnam. South Korea's policy of peaceful dialogue with the North has been chilled by the controversy, which prompted Pyongyang to accuse its neighbor of "international terrorism and an unpardonable human-rights abuse." Fearing the North might do more than hurl invective, South Korean intelligence officials issued an unusual warning last week that Pyongyang could launch a terrorist strike against South Korean citizens who aid refugees. South Korea has long blamed...
...spotlight on North Korea's human-rights record. On July 21, lawmakers in the House of Representatives unanimously approved a measure authorizing the government to spend $80 million over four years to provide shelter and legal aid to North Korean refugees and make it easier for them to seek asylum in the U.S. Another $16 million would go to nonprofit groups working for change in the North through methods such as smuggling in radios so that citizens can listen to forbidden Voice of America broadcasts. Aides to lawmakers working on the North Korea issue say there is at least...