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To: dirtboy
Well, in the case this thread discusses, the system didn't work.
355 posted on 01/15/2003 10:39:29 AM PST by hchutch ("Last suckers crossed, Syndicate shot'em up" - Ice-T, "I'm Your Pusher")
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To: hchutch
Well, in the case this thread discusses, the system didn't work.

Uh, first of all, the thread in general is not about this subject, this is your personal subject within the thread, and that personal subject has NOTHING to do with border groups trying to identify illegals crossing into private land. Having said that, unfortunately asylum cases are highly political - a given administration will often factor their own geopolitical views into the asylum process and direct the INS accordingly, the Elian matter being the classic example. So the Bush Admin is both pro-life and pro-China, which tend to cancel each other out as to geopolitical considerations (I don't like it, I'm just calling it as I see it). So the best approach here would be to petition Congress to amend asylum law to give strong consideration if the alien in question would be subject to forced abortion upon return - otherwise, it is subject to INS, and hence political, discretion.

356 posted on 01/15/2003 10:48:05 AM PST by dirtboy
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To: hchutch
And from the link you provided:

An immigration judge and the Board of Immigration Appeals had earlier said Xu Ming Li and Xin Kui Yu were ineligible for asylum. In an opinion filed Thursday, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals agreed.

The 9th Circuit is the most liberal circuit court out there, and IMO they are so pro-abort that they do not see a problem with a woman being forced to have one, and therefore they do not consider such to be persecution. Likewise, I doubt the Clinton Admin, between their pro-abort stance and their pro-China stance, would have directed the INS to give special consideration to such cases. So work to change the law to clearly define forced abortion or sterilzation as persecution that must be considered as grounds for granting asylum.

359 posted on 01/15/2003 11:02:45 AM PST by dirtboy
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