BILL WOULD HURT ASYLUM SEEKERS, ADVOCATES SAY.Byline: Eric Schmitt The New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of Times A little-noticed provision in the counterterrorism coun·ter·ter·ror adj. Intended to prevent or counteract terrorism: counterterror measures; counterterror weapons. n. Action or strategy intended to counteract or suppress terrorism. bill approved by Congress would drastically reduce the rights and protections of aliens with claims to remain in the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. , civil rights advocates said Thursday. Under the bill, people who say they are fleeing persecution and who arrive in the United States without valid travel documents would have their asylum claims decided by a single Immigration and Naturalization Service Noun 1. Immigration and Naturalization Service - an agency in the Department of Justice that enforces laws and regulations for the admission of foreign-born persons to the United States INS border officer. Current law requires a hearing before an immigration immigration, entrance of a person (an alien) into a new country for the purpose of establishing permanent residence. Motives for immigration, like those for migration generally, are often economic, although religious or political factors may be very important. judge. In 1995, 3,287 asylum seekers arrived without valid documents, immigration experts said. In addition, the provision says that anyone who had illegally entered the United States in the past could be summarily deported without judicial review. Currently, these immigrants are entitled to a deportation hearing, which guarantees constitutional rights like legal representation and places the burden of proof on the government to show why the alien should not be allowed to stay in the country. This change could theoretically affect hundreds of thousands of immigrants, including those who had lived here for years, married American citizens or had children who are citizens. Last year alone, about 80 percent of the 110,000 cases that immigration judges decided involved people who faced deportation for being in the country illegally. Under the bill, the fate of these aliens would rest with an immigration officer. ``The bill's provisions are a radical restructuring of the immigration laws immigration laws npl → leyes fpl de inmigración immigration laws npl → lois fpl sur l'immigration immigration laws npl that have nothing to do with terrorism and go far beyond anything in the immigration bills now being considered by Congress,'' said Lucas Guttentag, director of the American Civil Liberties Union's Immigrants' Rights Project. The immigration service and civil rights groups were caught off guard this week by the immigration provisions included in the anti-terrorism bill and were trying to assess the measure's consequences. Martin said the administration would try to amend the immigration bill now before the Senate to modify the provisions in the anti-terrorism legislation The examples and perspective in this article or section may not represent a worldwide view of the subject. Please [ improve this article] or discuss the issue on the talk page. . |
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