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...different than any other conference I've ever attended," said Dr. Eva E. Metalios, a primary care physician from New York who works in a clinic for immigrants seeking political asylum...
...power. His days of encouraging red revolution throughout the hemisphere are long since over; continuing to isolate Cuba only promotes hunger, desperation and floods of refugees that are not in anyone's interest -- including the interest of a U.S. now driven to violate its cherished principles of offering asylum to the oppressed...
...reverse nearly 30 years of Cuban policy, he was characterizing the exodus as "a cold-blooded attempt to maintain the Castro grip on Cuba." Unwilling to be blackmailed by the threat of a humanitarian disaster, Clinton revoked the special status Cuban refugees have long enjoyed, which guarantees them asylum if they reach U.S. shores...
Instead of the preferential treatment that has allowed Cubans to bypass the asylum process, the President announced on Friday that refugees trying to make it to the U.S. will now face indefinite detention while their cases are reviewed by immigration officials. By Saturday Clinton had imposed other stringencies on Cuba, including new limits on charter flights and an increase in anti-Castro radio broadcasts. Most important, Clinton pledged to cut off cash transfers from Cuban Americans to their relatives on the island -- gifts that have been estimated to total $500 million a year...
...Friday when Zairean paratroopers shut down the border, choking off the flow of refugees attempting to make it across the rusty bridge before the escape hatch closed. While thousands more stacked up behind them, Zaire announced that it would accept no more Rwandans until someone finds another country of asylum for the exiled Hutu leaders, who might be planning to resume the war from Zaire. Most of them would be charged with genocide and face execution if they return home...