America must offer oppressed a haven
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The US must protect genuine refugees' right to asylum rather than limiting access to immigration because of terrorist attacks by aliens such as the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center. Proposals have included screening aliens in their home countries, increasing detention capacity for aliens, streamlining hearing procedures so that aliens can be excluded at the port of entry and a temporary suspension of the right to asylum. All would compromise the rights of genuine refugees. Increasing detention capacity would also be an unnecessary expense, since only criminal aliens need really be detained.
Publication Name: The National Law Journal
Subject: Law
ISSN: 0162-7325
Year: 1993
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Courts have an obligation to protect the rights of aliens and refugees
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US courts must remember that they are legally obligated to protect refugees' and aliens' human rights. Lengthy and arbitrary detention of refugees contravenes customary international law, the Law of Nations. The detention of Cuban refugees fleeing to the US in 1980 is an example of such contravention. International treaty-based law protecting human rights stems from the 1967 United Nations Protocol relating to the Status of Refugees. According to the supremacy clause of the US Constitution, treaties to which the US is a party have equal authority to US law.
Publication Name: The National Law Journal
Subject: Law
ISSN: 0162-7325
Year: 1992
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Uncontrolled right of entry poses a threat
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Political asylum fraud has become a serious problem and steps must be taken to stop it. Asylum applicants who arrive illegally and may even be national security risks can stay for at least a year and a half while their claim wends its way through the system and longer if they fail to show up for their hearing. Measures should include a summary denial of asylum claims not creditable on their face, an expansion of detention space, temporary and conditional granting of asylum, and improved international tracking of criminal records.
Publication Name: The National Law Journal
Subject: Law
ISSN: 0162-7325
Year: 1993
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