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"Slamming
The Golden Door": The Imprisonment
of Asylum Seekers in the Wake of the 1996 Immigration Act  Asylum
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The Torchlight Campaign Protecting Refugees Who Seek Deserving refugees are at risk under a flawed immigration law that passed the U.S. Congress in 1996. Some have been wrongly deported - without even being given a chance to apply for asylum - under a provision of the law, known as "Expedited Removal." Expedited removal gives INS inspectors at our borders the power to make life and death deportation decisions. Previously only trained immigration judges were entrusted with that power. As a result of the 1996 law's "mandatory detention" provisions thousands of asylum seekers have also been detained in prisons and detention facilities, while thousands of others have had their asylum claims rejected because the law imposes a new unrealistic and unfair filing deadline. Because of these unfair provisions, deserving refugees have been denied asylum and in some cases returned to the very countries where their lives were in peril... more>>
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