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Article: The new jet set. (how questionable political asylum claimants enter the US at New York, New York's John F. Kennedy International airport without any difficulty)
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- National Review
- Article date:
- March 15, 1993
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It's a slow day at New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport. Mondays usually are. "You should be here on a Friday or a Saturday, that's when the action is," says one of the uniformed immigration inspectors who deal with up to 1,300 political-asylum claimants a month.
At the secondary inspection area in the East Wing of JFK's International Arrivals Building, a Liberian national is entering a claim for political asylum. He is traveling on a British passport which he purchased for $300 in Bangkok. The flight that he arrived on several hours earlier originated in Tokyo.
The man, about 30, has his lines well rehearsed: "My uncle was killed in an ...