Word: rios
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...scrutinizes their pleas. But to stem a surge of arrivals from Central America, the INS delayed granting work permits until asylum applications could be processed and told the refugees to remain near their point of entry until the paperwork was completed. The new regulations helped turn the Rio Grande Valley into a giant alien way station...
NATION: A torrent of refugees from Central America pours across the Rio Grande, creating an immigration crisis...
Stroessner landed at 5:55 p.m. in Campinas, 290 iniles southwest of Rio de Janeiro, on a Paraguay Airlines Boeing 707, then left on another aircraft for the small town of Itumbiara in the central Brazilian state of Goias, Brazilian sources said...
...Hull Cairo: Dean Fischer, David S. Jackson Nairobi: James Wilde Johannesburg: Bruce W. Nelan New Delhi: Edward W. Desmond Bangkok: Ross H. Munro Beijing: Sandra Burton Hong Kong: William Stewart, Jay Branegan Tokyo: Barry Hillenbrand, Seiichi Kanise, Kumiko Makihara Central America: John Moody Mexico City: John Borrell Rio de Janeiro: Laura Lopez
...sleep in cold, gutted rooms under mounds of donated blankets. By official estimate, at least 5,000 refugees from war and deteriorating economies in Nicaragua, El Salvador, Honduras and Guatemala have been stranded in South Texas since the INS last month directed applicants for political asylum coming through the Rio Grande Valley to stay there until their cases are decided. The jam eased temporarily last week when a federal judge lifted the travel ban and hundreds of aliens boarded buses for Miami, Houston and Los Angeles. But hundreds more had no money to go anywhere. And the INS is trying...