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After protesting the immigration service's decision and twice receiving extensions of the deportation deadline, Brutus was given a hearing to show cause why he should not be forced to leave. Although an immigration judge ruled last November that Brutus was deportable, INS said it would allow him to request a new visa if he would leave the country and apply through a U.S. consulate. Brutus was willing to go along with INS's plan as long as the agency would guarantee him that he could reenter the United States. When INS refused to provide that assurance, he applied...
...Brutus is now waiting for the State Department's recommendation. Elliot Abrams, assistant secretary of state for human rights, who is handling the case personally, says that the decision will be made by the end of March. The general criterion used by the State Department, according to Abrams, is that the applicant demonstrate "a well-founded fear of persecution" if he were to be deported Brutus says that he satisfies this criterion. If he were forced to return to South Africa, he believes that, at the very least, he would be thrown into prison. And if he were deported...
Despite these concerns and despite letters of support from Rep. Thomas P. O'Neill Jr. (D-Mass.), Sen. Paul E. Tsongas (D-Mass.), and several other members of Congress. Brutus is by no means confident that the State Department will rule in his favor. The increasing friendliness between the Reagan Administration and the regime in Pretoria makes Brutus and his supporters uneasy. As a staff member at TransAfrica, a Black-American lobbying group, says, many view the attempt to deport Brutus "as another symbol of the Administration's growing closeness with South Africa...
...Brutus himself continually emphasizes signs of growing closeness between Pretoria and Washington. He considers it ironic that INS is attempting to deport him at the same time the State Department has relaxed rules that prohibited South African military personnel from visiting the United States. And he believes that the Reagan Administration's desire to befriend South Africa has led to loosened restrictions on sales of American products and technology to the South African police and military...
...only the U.S. government, but also U.S. businesses are "prime allies" of apartheid, Brutus maintains. "Sometimes I think that our real oppressors are not in Pretoria, but in the boardrooms of the multi-national companies," he says, noting that corporate withdrawal from South Africa can play a major role in the eventual destruction of apartheid...