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Article: Welcome, up to a point. (Soviet Jews and American immigration policies)
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- The Economist (US)
- Article date:
- September 9, 1989
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Welcome, up to a point
WINNING an argument, however joyously, can sometimes land the victor in the soup. The United States, which for the past 15 years has been banging away relentlessly at the Soviet Union to allow its people, specifically its Jews, to leave, faces the awkward corollary of where these people, who are now leaving Russia in ever increasing numbers, should go. More than 90% of the emigrants have no doubts about it. They want to go to America.
Until about a year ago Soviet Jews, once they got out of the country, were automatically accepted by the United States as "refugees". One of Mr Edwin Meese's last acts as attorney-general was to ...