Word: asylum
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...Havana will, no doubt, fume about how the Cuban Adjustment Act - which grants asylum to any Cubans who manage to reach U.S. shores, but sends home those intercepted at sea - encourages people to risk their lives. Campaigning against the act has become the centerpiece of Fidel Castro's domestic propaganda efforts in the wake of the Elian Gonzalez case, but that doesn't mean Havana will use Thursday's previously scheduled immigration talks with U.S. officials in Washington to threaten, once again, to open the spigots. (The current arrangement was negotiated between the two governments, which have no official diplomatic...
Abramian, a Russian immigrant, applied for political asylum several years ago and was denied. But his case had not gone through the appeals process before a change in immigration law forced it back to a lower court...
According to Daniel Cashman, Abramian's immigration attorney, Abramian had to prove he previously applied for asylum, had good moral character and that he would suffer hardship if he returned to his native country...
Ecuador has a bilateral extradition treaty with the U.S. and may try to force his return to Ecuador. But former Ecuadorean government figures have often been granted political asylum in other countries due to fears that they would not receive a fair trial in Ecuador...
...disguised as a Marine, her hair tucked into a New York Yankees baseball cap. They landed in Chicago, only to meet the stateside heavies: the Immigration and Naturalization Service had been alerted by Bahrain and had been requested to send the woman back immediately. Al-Khalifa in turn claimed asylum. If sent home, she said, she would face ostracism, persecution, even death...