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...tenet of U.S. immigration policy, not bureacratic incompetence, that blocked the path of Qul and his people to Alaska. U.S. immigration law considers only individuals, whereas Qul had intended to apply for the entire tribe. And no provision existis to justify treating a group of people as a single entity. This--an official from the State Department's Bureau of Refugees, who wishes not to be identified, says--is the only fair way to run immigration...
...would find, however, those who disagree with his contention. The entire system of immigration is at odds with the tribal idea of self, according to Louis Dupree '49, an anthropologist at Pennsylvania State University who has done field work in Afrghanistan. A friend of Qul, Dupree has set out to see that he and his tribe do get to Alaska. The immigration authorities look at individuals as individuals and deals with them as such, Dupree says. The individual in a tribal society considers himself part of this group; this, Dupree says, has led to mistakes on the part of immigration...
...such is the law, according to Paula Lynch (another official in the Bureau of Refugees Affairs); and under it each individual in Qul's tribe wanting to come to the United States must show up in Islamabad and file a formal application...
Even if everyone in the tribe were to apply, there would be no guarantee that everyone would receive permission to immigrate, Dennis Murphy, an official on the State Department's Pakistan desk, says. Murphy hastens to add that the member's of Qul's tribe would be considered along with several thousand other people applying for refugee status from Afghanistan and Iraq. From October 1980, to September 1981, more than 3000 refugees from Afghanistan and Iraq--the majority from Afghanistan--were admitted to the United States. The Bureau of Refugee Affairs, Lynch says, has been using the definition of refugee...
...Kirghiz, regardless of their suffering at the hands of the Russians, maintain no ties with the United States other than their involvement with Dupree, Jones, and Nassif Shahrani--an anthropologist at UCLA who has done field work with the Kirghiz in Afghanistan. As a result, Lynch says, Qul and his tribe do not stand a chance on earth of qualifying for the U.S. refugee program...