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...them, José, 25, is trying to raise his $3,500 bond. "I can't go back to El Salvador," he says. "I'd be shot." Like Afghan and Haitian refugees, Salvadorans present thorny problems for the INS because they come requesting asylum. To get it, they must show that they have been or are likely to be persecuted for political, religious or racial reasons...
...native France in 1977. An odds-on favorite was a 56-year-old Aussie who was sailing the oceans when some of his rivals were playing with boats in their bathtubs. A competitor from Eastern Europe, a Czech, has written ten books on sea adventure, and applied for political asylum hi the U.S. last August...
...hide their identities, many of the fugitives wear masks while on public view in the churches. The United Methodist Church and United Presbyterian Church have asked their 47,000 congregations to proclaim sanctuary, and the board of directors of the American Friends Service Committee has urged Quakers to give asylum to the refugees...
Christians who advocate lawbreaking for a higher good believe it is futile for the Central American exiles to apply for legal residency. Some 250,000 are in the U.S. illegally, and last year the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) approved only 74 applications for asylum from Salvadorans, rejected 1,067, and faces a backlog of 25,000 other cases. The Government, which has deported 24,700 Salvadorans since 1980, argues that most Central American refugees are ineligible to be granted asylum under U.S. law because they are fleeing harsh economic conditions rather than political persecution. The INS declares that there...
...fact, China had hoped to prevent the Hu Na case from adding to the current strains with the U.S. and had sent signals that it would not strongly object if its star tennis player were given an immigration status that did not carry the nettlesome label of political asylum...