Extra! 1993 Ed. 7 – Update October

October 1, 1993

Scapegoating Immigrants

In the wake of the World Trade Center bombing, a barrage of attacks on the asylum system in the U.S. has appeared in the media. These stories, which characterized the asylum procedure as a “scam” for entering the U.S., tended to feature the views of government officials and anti-immigrant “experts” without balancing arguments from immigrants […]

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