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Article: `Home Is What It's All About'; Kosovo Refugees Seek Haven, Not Asylum, in the United States
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- The Washington Post
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- May 4, 1999
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U.S. officials interviewing the first Kosovo refugees eligible for
transfer to the United States made an unexpected discovery: Almost
none of them wants to move to America permanently.
Refugees told immigration officials and reporters here today that
they are delighted at the chance to escape the heat and monotony of
this extremely crowded camp of 30,000 people, and they said they are
grateful to be offered temporary shelter across the ocean.
If accepted, many said, they would like to be aboard the first
chartered 747 jet from here to the Fort Dix, N.J., processing center,
a flight planned for Wednesday. But moving to America for good was
an unwelcome idea.
"My home was burned, but I would ...