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...reason. But most national governments and international organizations recognize as refugees only those who live in "fear of political persecution if they return" to their homeland. As a result, many migrants who wish only to work and improve their life claim falsely to be refugees and ask for political asylum. Last year 700,000 of them applied to West European countries for asylum -- 438,000 in Germany alone. "I risked my life to get here," says Anton Lupu, a 33-year-old Romanian painter who made it across the border from Poland and has applied for asylum in Eisenhuttenstadt, Germany...
Britain's immigration laws have been tough for decades, but a bill now before Parliament would tighten the requirements for political asylum and take away the right of tourists and students to appeal when their request for an extension is refused. Under pressure from the E.C., Spain requires visas for arrivals from Morocco. The Spanish have persuaded Morocco to take back its own citizens as well as others who illegally enter their country across the mouth of the Mediterranean...
Just how long that calculation will hold is now up to a phalanx of lawyers. Last Friday the Board of Immigration Appeals in Washington rejected the sheik's bid for asylum and upheld a March ruling that he could be deported. He can appeal in federal court -- but that process could be short-circuited by an extradition request filed in early July by Egypt. Cairo has requested his return to stand trial for inciting a 1989 riot outside a mosque in Faiyum, southwest of the capital. But Abdel Rahman is almost certain to fight extradition on grounds that...
...work, those returnees who did manage to return home have little chance of recovering what they lost. Instead they are forced to live off the goodwill of their impoverished neighbors, further hastening the downward spiral of a village already on its last legs. "Those who left and were granted asylum were the town's best people," says Gerard Phillippe, Petit-Trou's justice of the peace and the only one of the returnees who has carved out some measure of success. "They were the ones who organized the peasants and who would have one day run the town. Without them...
...Board of Immigration Appeals in Washington, where a ruling can take from six months to two years; if it rules against the sheik, he can appeal to a | federal district court, and on up to the Supreme Court. And all this would be notwithstanding his additional claim for political asylum. "It takes so long," notes immigration expert Muzaffar Chishti, "because of our due- process system." Depending on one's stand on immigration and the law, that system is either a blessing or a curse. In Abdel Rahman's case, the smartest thing may be to leave him in New Jersey...