Word: deportations
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Kohl's example demonstrates how complicated the debate has become. In Sri Lanka civil war has driven out more than 125,000 Tamils since 1983. When 64 Tamils landed at London's Heathrow Airport in February 1987, British authorities attempted to deport 58 of them. The official explanation was that the asylum seekers "failed to prove they had a justifiable fear of persecution," although several of them bore torture marks inflicted in Sri Lankan prisons. Panicked, the refugees stripped off their clothes on $ Heathrow's tarmac and refused to budge. A court injunction eventually forced authorities to grant the Tamils...
...praises West Bank Jews as the "frontline obstacle to the establishment of a Palestinian state." Still, the government hopes to cool off the settlers with a series of tough new measures against Arab demonstrators. Last week Chief of Staff Dan Shomron requested an amendment that would allow him to deport Palestinians before their appeals are heard. The Defense Ministry also asked lawmakers to double the period of detention without trial from six months to twelve months...
...easy and relatively inexpensive international travel, extradition has become a common procedure. American officials are involved in more than 1,000 cases around the world, either seeking the return of suspects to the U.S. or responding to the requests of other nations. The U.S., for example, is expected to deport Hector Burgueno Fragoso to Mexico. He was found last week in Tucson, and is a prime suspect in the drug-related torture and slaying of twelve people just across the border. The extradition process is usually governed by individual treaties between countries, each with its own special provisions...
Friends do not always agree, but last week's quarrel between the U.S. and Israel was definitely out of the ordinary. Deputy Secretary of State John Whitehead summoned the Israeli charge d'affaires in Washington to protest Israel's plans to deport 25 more Palestinians from the West Bank and Gaza Strip. The State Department publicly expressed "shock" and privately warned Israel that "damage to our bilateral relations will occur" if the deportations go ahead. That apparently means that the U.S. will not defend Israel if the expulsions are condemned in the United Nations...
Until he left Tel Aviv for New York City last week, few Americans had ever heard of Mubarak Awad. But the Israeli decision to deport Awad made the Palestinian American something of a media celebrity, with the Reagan Administration firmly in his corner. Conceded an Israeli official: "We shot ourselves in the foot...