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Right now, once aliens enter the U.S., it is almost impossible to deport them, even if they have no valid documents. Thousands of those who enter illegally request asylum only if they are caught. The review process can take 10 years or more, and applicants often simply disappear while it is under way. Asylum cases are piling up faster than they can be cleared, with the Immigration and Naturalization Service falling farther behind every year. At her confirmation hearings at the end of September, Doris Meissner, Clinton's nominee as commissioner of the INS, conceded, "The asylum system is broken...
Attorney General Janet Reno said the Justice Department will not fight the return of John Demjanjuk to the U.S. She added, however, that prosecutors will seek to deport the retired Cleveland autoworker again, for while new information suggests that he is not "Ivan the Terrible," as formerly accused, there is evidence that Demjanjuk did serve in a Nazi concentration camp...
...Middle East peace talks. So, at least, declared U.S. Secretary of State Warren Christopher, who began nurturing this latest round on a swing through the region in February. He confirmed the resumption following a final bit of jockeying by participants. Israel declared that it had no plans to deport more Palestinians from occupied territories. The Palestinian delegation, newly led by Jerusalemite Faisal al-Husseini, lost two far-left members, who opposed new negotiations and resigned in protest...
...Meir Kahane, a Zionist zealot. Salameh is known to have worshipped at a Jersey City mosque -- actually a bare room under a leaky roof -- where he would have heard the fiery sermons of Sheik Omar Abdel- Rahman, a blind cleric from Egypt whom the U.S. government is trying to deport. The sheik vocally advocates overthrow of the Egyptian government of Hosni Mubarak, a U.S. ally, and some merchants in the Little Egypt section of Jersey City speak of the mosque and its communicants with fear...
That word reverberated through the deportation controversy last week. No, the Israeli High Court of Justice ruled, it would not reverse the government's decision to deport the Muslim fundamentalists who are accused of inciting violence in Israel and the occupied territories. No, the Palestine Liberation Organization said, it would no longer delay pressing its demand for sanctions against Israel at the United Nations. No, said Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, he would not give in and take back the exiles despite that threat...