U.S. Refugee Program for 1993: Annual Refugee Consultations : Hearing Before the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, One Hundred Second Congress, Second Session ... July 23, 1992, Volume 4U.S. Government Printing Office, 1993 - 253 pages |
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... proposed refugee admissions for 1993 .. Responses to written questions from committee members : 78 80 82 84 88 Hon . Lawrence S. Eagleburger . 134 , 152 , 178 , 197 Ambassador Warren Zimmermann . 150 , 176 Ambassador Jewel Lafontant ...
... proposed refugee admissions for 1993 .. Responses to written questions from committee members : 78 80 82 84 88 Hon . Lawrence S. Eagleburger . 134 , 152 , 178 , 197 Ambassador Warren Zimmermann . 150 , 176 Ambassador Jewel Lafontant ...
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... proposal for refugee admis- sions and assistance during the coming fiscal year . We are joined today by Senator DeConcini . We are delighted to have him . OPENING STATEMENT OF SENATOR DECONCINI Senator DECONCINI . Mr. Chairman , thank ...
... proposal for refugee admis- sions and assistance during the coming fiscal year . We are joined today by Senator DeConcini . We are delighted to have him . OPENING STATEMENT OF SENATOR DECONCINI Senator DECONCINI . Mr. Chairman , thank ...
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... Proposed Refugee Admissions for Fiscal Year 1993 acknowledges on page 15 that " Following the coup in Haiti in September 1991 the number of Haitians fleeing Haiti by boat and intercepted by the U.S. Coast Guard increased dramatically ...
... Proposed Refugee Admissions for Fiscal Year 1993 acknowledges on page 15 that " Following the coup in Haiti in September 1991 the number of Haitians fleeing Haiti by boat and intercepted by the U.S. Coast Guard increased dramatically ...
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... proposal for the admission of 132,000 refugees to the United States in fiscal year 1993. I believe that the committee has already received a report which provides the detailed information required by the Ref- ugee Act . Because the ...
... proposal for the admission of 132,000 refugees to the United States in fiscal year 1993. I believe that the committee has already received a report which provides the detailed information required by the Ref- ugee Act . Because the ...
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... proposal was made yesterday over in the House , but I think the point is well worth underlining ; it is a human tragedy taking place that is probably unequaled in any part of the world . Maybe it is not , but it is certainly of enormous ...
... proposal was made yesterday over in the House , but I think the point is well worth underlining ; it is a human tragedy taking place that is probably unequaled in any part of the world . Maybe it is not , but it is certainly of enormous ...
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additional Administration admissions ceiling admissions numbers admitted Affairs July 23 Africa Albanians Amerasian arrivals Article 33 Chairman Commissioner for Refugees CONGRESS THE LIBRARY continue demining Department Deputy Secretary displaced persons Eagleburger Senate Judiciary Eastern Europe efforts eligible Embassy Fiscal Year 1993 former Soviet Union former Yugoslavia funded groups Haiti Haitian HAITIAN REFUGEES High Commissioner Immigration and Refugee interview Iraqi Judiciary Committee Subcommittee large number Lawrence Eagleburger Lawrence Eagleburger Senate Liberian LIBRARY OF CONGRESS Migration million Nairobi non-refoulement number of refugees Orderly Departure Program organizations percent political Port-au-Prince President private voluntary organizations proposed protection Question Record Submitted Refugee Act refugee admissions Refugee Affairs July Refugee Convention refugee processing refugee program refugee resettlement refugee status region relief resettlement program Senate Judiciary Committee Senator DECONCINI Senator KENNEDY Senator SIMPSON Somali Soviet Union Subcommittee on Immigration U.S. refugee UNHCR United Nations visa voluntary agencies voluntary repatriation
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Page 89 - General shall promptly submit to the division of the court and the Committees on the Judiciary of the Senate and the House of Representatives a report specifying the facts found and the ultimate grounds for such removal.
Page 93 - ... well-founded fear of persecution on account of race, religion, nationality, membership in a particular social group, or political opinion...
Page 93 - refugee" means (A) any person who is outside any country of such person's nationality or, in the case of a person having no nationality, is outside any country in which such person last habitually resided, and who is unable or unwilling to return to, and is unable or unwilling to avail himself or herself of the protection of, that country because of persecution or a well-founded fear of persecution on account of race, religion, nationality...
Page 140 - No Contracting State shall expel or return («refouler» ) a refugee in any manner whatsoever to the frontiers of territories where his life -or freedom would be threatened on account of his race, religion, nationality, membership of a particular social group or political opinion.
Page 140 - The benefit of the present provision may not, however, be claimed by a refugee whom there are reasonable grounds for regarding as a danger to the security of the country in which he is, or who, haying been convicted by a final judgment of a particularly serious crime, constitutes a danger to the community of that country.
Page 144 - No person shall be subjected by a Member State to measures such as rejection at the frontier, return or expulsion, which would compel him to return to or remain in a territory where his life, physical integrity or liberty would be threatened for the reasons set out in Article I, paragraphs 1 and 2.
Page 233 - USC 1159(b)) of aliens who have been granted asylum in the United States under section 208 of the Act (8 USC 1158), as this is justified by humanitarian concerns or is otherwise in the national interest.
Page 140 - A treaty shall be interpreted in good faith in accordance with the ordinary meaning to be given to the terms of the treaty in their context and in light of its object and purpose.
Page 140 - Panel must apply customary rules of interpretation of public international law 367 , as set out in Articles 31 and 32 of the Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties (1969).
Page 145 - The Attorney General is authorized to withhold deportation of any alien within the United States to any country in which in his opinion the alien would be subject to persecution on account of race, religion, or political opinion...