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...city first declared itself a “sanctuary city” on April 8, 1985, when large numbers of refugees fleeing the war in El Salvador arrived in Cambridge and were denied political asylum and threatened with deportation...
Cambridge first declared itself a “sanctuary city” on April 8, 1985, when large numbers of refugees fleeing the war in El Salvador who had arrived here were denied political asylum and threatened with deportation...
...organization launched by Edward Y. Lee ’08 and Jieun Baek ’09. The organization is just one of 70 chapters worldwide. The event featured a screening of the 2004 documentary “Seoul Train,” which shows North Korean refugees seeking asylum in border countries such as China and South Korea. North Koreans who have escaped from Kim Jong Il’s totalitarian regime to bordering China have been sent back to North Korea to face imprisonment or execution, according to Amnesty International. China is a party to the UN Refugee...
...Philippe de Villiers, the leaders of two French far-right parties, have been making inroads. But while his verbal bravado may raise eyebrows, Sarkozy has plenty of company. Across Europe, immigration policy - whether devised to control legal or illegal flows or the separate issue of political asylum - is no longer seen as a marshy reservoir where far-right fringe parties toss cheap rhetoric to xenophobes. That changed after Sept. 11, and particularly after Dutch politician Pim Fortuyn, having suggested that the Netherlands was "full," was murdered in May 2002. Sarkozy's comments primed France for a divisive debate...
...Philippe de Villiers, the leaders of two French far-right parties, have been making inroads. But while his verbal bravado may raise eyebrows, Sarkozy has plenty of company. Across Europe, immigration policy - whether devised to control legal or illegal flows or the separate issue of political asylum - is no longer seen as a marshy reservoir where far-right fringe parties toss cheap rhetoric to xenophobes. That changed after Sept. 11, and particularly after Dutch politician Pim Fortuyn, having suggested that the Netherlands was "full," was murdered in May 2002. Sarkozy's comments primed France for a divisive debate...