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...teacher had been murdered by PEPES, a vigilante group thought to comprise former colleagues whom the drug lord had betrayed, but also to include hit men from the rival Cali drug cartel. Fearing they would be next, his wife and children fled early last week to Germany, seeking asylum; they were promptly deported back to Bogota...
...Refugee Act radically expanded the definition of those eligible for political asylum. But because it has been poorly enforced and easily abused, it helped bring on today's growing demand for new limits on aliens. Still, for the first time in its history, the U.S. has an immigration policy that, for better or worse, is truly democratic...
...Haiti -- but Canada and Poland also contribute a good share. The illegals cross the porous border from Baja California, heading north to Los Angeles, where the wages are relatively high and the questions relatively few. They come from China, in coffin ships like the Golden Venture, in quest of asylum. They fly in from Ireland, willing to pull a few pints or pound a few nails in exchange for some greenbacks and, if they're lucky, a green card...
...rural province of Fujian in China, left his family behind in the old country earlier this year to seek his fortune in America. For a fee of $30,000, which he borrowed, he was smuggled into the country by plane at Honolulu. Confronted by the INS, Lin claimed political asylum, boarded another plane and promptly disappeared into the nearly impenetrable subculture of New York City's Chinatown...
Some of that money will go back to China, to pay off Lin's debt. But, roughly $1,300 will go to Lin's lawyer, who is helping him with his asylum application. Like many other Chinese, Lin tells a story of his wife's forced, botched abortions and his threatened sterilization back home, the ugly realities of China's one-family, one-child policy. Chances are he will be approved, as are 55% of Chinese applicants...