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The Endless Debate: Refugees Law And Policy And The 1980 Refugee Act, Kenneth D. Brill
The Endless Debate: Refugees Law And Policy And The 1980 Refugee Act, Kenneth D. Brill
Cleveland State Law Review
Refugee policy and law have developed largely in an ad hoc manner, as the nation has responded to crises around the world with both altruism and political self-interest. Against the foreground of refugee and asylum claims by unfortunate individuals there has been an unending struggle among the three branches of the United States government to make the rules for handling these claims. Part II discusses the way refugee policy became a weapon in the Cold War and the formal abandonment of that approach with the adoption of the 1980 Refugee Act. Part III contains an analysis of the claims of …
Refugees Under United States Immigration Law, Nicholas B. Kap
Refugees Under United States Immigration Law, Nicholas B. Kap
Cleveland State Law Review
The recent influx into the United States of approximately 130,000 South Vietnamese refugees makes appropriate an examination of the legal aspects of refugee immigration. Even under more tranquil circumstances many refugees from different areas of the world come to this country every year. The process of entry into the United States and the refugees' subsequent status is determined by the provisions of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952, as subsequently amended. This note will examine those sections of the Act which allow an alien, based upon his refugee status, to come to or to remain in the United States …