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...Tucson defendants, citing churches' traditional offers of asylum to those fleeing pursuers and the U.S. underground railroad for 19th century slaves, steadfastly claimed that they had a religious duty to aid people who fear abuse, prison or even death in their homeland. But to the Federal Government, which last year prosecuted 18,000 cases of smuggling illegal aliens, church activists warrant no special treatment. Says Commissioner Alan C. Nelson of the Immigration and Naturalization Service: "No group, no matter how well meaning and highly motivated, can arbitrarily violate the laws of the United States...
...view of the persecution claims of anyone fleeing a Communist country. The Justice Department is considering a new interpretation of the 1980 Refugee Act that would establish a "presumption" that aliens fleeing a Communist regime have a well-founded fear of persecution that would meet the requirement for political asylum. The ins's Rivkind, who stopped deportation proceedings against eight Nicaraguans in Miami last week, apparently jumped the gun on the policy shift, since Attorney General Edwin Meese has yet to sign off on the new interpretation...
...Administration's changing sanctuary policy may well run afoul of Congress. "I think it is unfair as hell to permit blanket asylum for Nicaraguans and not for Salvadorans," protested Arizona's Democratic Senator , Dennis DeConcini. He has a bill pending in the Senate Judiciary Committee that would give Salvadoran refugees the same status as that being considered for Nicaraguans...
...Tucson, the tumultuous six-month "sanctuary" trial went to the jury last week. Lawyers defending the church workers pleaded with Federal Judge Earl Carroll to let them point out the inconsistency of the Government's asylum policy to the jurors. The judge ruled that this was irrelevant. Earlier, he had banned any testimony about persecution in the refugees' home country or about the religious and humanitarian motives of the defendants in providing sanctuary. Assistant U.S. Attorney Donald Reno doggedly confined the prosecution's case to charges that the religious groups conspired to smuggle aliens into the U.S. and thus violated...
...hour interview with TIME. During the session he indicated that he is rapidly regaining confidence as he emerges from a period of isolation and depression that followed his expulsion from power. While qualifying his remarks with expressions of gratitude to his American hosts for granting him asylum, the former leader insisted that he had intelligence reports indicating that "some Americans had helped in the preparation of the coup." He continued: "We cannot confirm it, but it included plans to assassinate both the First Lady...