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...rules are simple in theory: anyone with a well-founded fear of persecution is entitled to political asylum in the U.S. Someone who is desperate to find a job and feed a family is not. Until now, Bill Clinton has avoided trying to tell them apart and simply repatriated all Haitian boat people to Port-au-Prince. His new plan to process their claims at sea and grant refuge to the deserving quieted domestic criticism but may not do the job. Here's how it would work...
Most observers agree, however, that anything would be an improvement over the current asylum-application system, under which prospective refugees must apply at three processing centers in Haiti. Merely doing so can be considered a dangerously disloyal act by the regime, and only 3,000 of 55,694 applicants over two years have gained asylum...
...feckless Bosnia policy represents a sin of omission -- an unwillingness or inability to rally the world against Serbia's aggression -- then, argued Robinson, Clinton's Haiti stance reflected an even more reprehensible sin of commission. "To interdict people and then turn them back to be killed without granting them ((asylum hearings))," he said, "makes the President complicit in the killing of those people...
...hasn't worked." Then, finally, Clinton moved. Two days of intensive discussions produced a change of policy last Saturday, confirmed a senior Administration official. Beginning sometime in the next few weeks, those Haitians who take to the seas will be welcomed aboard U.S. ships. Their claims for political asylum will be heard either on board those vessels or at third-country processing centers if the U.S. can negotiate their creation. Although the White House insists it has been debating a new course for some time, it's clear that the news coverage of Robinson's fast and the sight...
...often, politics dictate immigration policy," Hernandez said. "In the '80s, we allowed anyone defecting from the Soviet Union in under political asylum while turning away refugees from Nicaragua and El Salvador for being economic refugees...