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Recent Developments, Gali Hagel, John R. Heldman

Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law

RECENT DEVELOPMENTS

Aliens' Rights--The Refugee Act of 1980 as Response to the 1967 Protocol Relating to the Status of Refugees: The First Test

Gali Hagel

The Refugee Act of 1980, reflecting United States commitments under the 1951 Convention and the 1967 Protocol, went into effect during a wave of immigration that created a state of emergency in strongly affected southern Florida. Under a severe test of its commitment to the terms of the 1967 Protocol and its implicit sense of moral obligation to grant asylum to individuals fleeing dictatorial rule, the United States responded positively in accepting the Cubans. Although …

Can The Boat People Assert A Right To Remain In Asylum?, Brian Roberts

Seattle University Law Review

World political reaction to the Southeast Asian refugee crisis has not asserted the refugees' human rights under international law. As a result, most of the refugees lack security from forcible return to the conditions they fled. They would have that security if the world powers act instead to implement non-refoulement, an established moral principle that arguably has attained the status of customary international law.

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 …