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...subject Europe's politicians would rather not talk about. No issue generates more emotion, and few others seem as confounding to solve. Take a stand on either side of the debate, and you're bound to get burned. Vowing to act tough on illegal immigrants and false asylum seekers plays well in the heartland; but crackdowns merely send refugees underground, forcing them to take ever-deadlier risks to get in. Easing entry requirements makes good economic sense, since Europe needs 75 million new workers over the next 50 years to replenish its aging population; but try telling that to downsized...
...when she was growing up. Although Gutmann's father spoke with a German accent, the photos of him were taken in India. As she grew older, her father's odyssey gradually became clear. Fifteen years before she was born, her father had fled Nazi Germany only to be denied asylum in the United States...
...AUSTRALIA A Climb-Down on Asylum Claims In an apparent concession to about 2,000 detained Afghan refugees, the Australian government said it would resume processing their claims for asylum. The move came after three Afghans at the Woomera detention center, in the South Australian desert, attempted suicide. About 200 migrants have been on a hunger strike at the facility, where more than 40 had their lips sewn shut. Reviews of the Afghans' claims were frozen in November, pending evaluation of the post-Taliban situation in their homeland...
...groups have little in common. Survivors' associations have accused the government of milking international sympathy over the genocide for political gain while failing to adequately care for those who suffered. Meanwhile, the speaker of parliament, a Tutsi genocide survivor, has sought asylum abroad, alleging that corruption charges against him were trumped up. The vice president of Ibuka (meaning "Remember!" in Kinyarwanda), the leading survivors' association, also fled the country early last year after his brother was assassinated by men in military uniform...
...father in Cuba. Fidel Castro's regime staged rallies demanding the latter course. In the U.S., as a crowd of Elian "supporters" grew ever larger outside the small house, the boy's case wound its way through the courts. Politicians took sides, with anti-Castro Republicans arguing for asylum, and Democrats asking for the letter of the law, which seemed to indicate that a father's will should prevail. As the situation in Little Havana grew more tense, Attorney General Janet Reno sought to get Elian to a neutral site. The Miami relatives were unwilling to give...