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Civil libertarians and social workers, however, claim the new INS policy, which permits perfunctory, closed hearings, is unfair to the bewildered, mostly illiterate Haitians. Critics challenge the Government's presumption that Haitians come here for economic reasons, and are thus not eligible for political asylum. Most Cuban arrivals, by contrast, are assumed to be fleeing from Communism. Some lawyers for the refugees charge it is racist to single out Haitians, 95% of whom are black, for exclusion...
Exclusionary hearings, part of a standard process for immigrants whom the INS finds undesirable, have been held for 1,559. A mere 38 were granted asylum. Some 90% of the prisoners have been judged "excludable" and await deportation. Yet Cuba refuses to accept any Marielito, criminal...
...kept blacks off the ballot. In the same election, Gilmore became sheriff. Says Branch: "I used to tell my students to prepare themselves, that they could some day be elected to public office. They looked at me like I was a graduate of an insane asylum...
...play and the complete dialogue for a movie. But, as Jasen shows, that facility could be ruinous. At the beginning of World War II, Wodehouse was living in Le Touquet, where he was trapped by the German Occupation. He ended up a prisoner of war in a converted lunatic asylum. Here he composed Money in the Bank, all alone in his padded cell...
...poignant symbolism of last week's defection drama. In a stunning rebuff to Kremlin cultural politics, the son and grandson of the Soviet Union's most celebrated contemporary composer the late Dmitri Shostakovich, decided to join Rostropovich in exile and petition the U.S. State Department for asylum...