Immigration: Hard Times for Refugees

Hard Times for Refugees

Several hundred Central Americans arriving last week in the U.S. got a nasty welcome from the Immigration and Naturalization Service: they were promptly incarcerated. Under a new hard-line policy, refugees are detained while awaiting action on their request for political asylum, then deported if rejected by the INS. This time roughly 110 men and women were confined behind barbed wire at a detention center near Bayview, Texas, while about 200 mothers with children were held at a Red Cross shelter in nearby Brownsville.

Since the INS's get-tough edict took effect, the number of Central Americans seeking asylum at the INS processing...

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