Illegal Aliens in the United States: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Immigration and Claims of the Committee on the Judiciary, House of Representatives, One Hundred Sixth Congress, First Session, March 18, 1999 |
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Page 24 - Everyone has the right to seek and to enjoy in other countries asylum from persecution.
Page 24 - Considering that the Universal Declaration of Human Rights provides that "everyone has the right to work, to free choice of employment, to just and favourable conditions of work and to protection against unemployment...
Page 48 - AFFAIRS, US DEPARTMENT OF STATE Mr. Chairman, members of the Committee, thank you for inviting me to testify here today.
Page 24 - Party shall expel, return ("refouler"), surrender or extradite a person to another State where there are substantial grounds for believing that he or she would be in danger of being subjected to enforced disappearance.
Page 48 - Since issuance of our report last March, we sent two letters to the INS to check on the status of their corrective actions — the first in October 1998, the second in January of this year. INS has not responded to either letter.
Page 47 - Bombs in Brooklyn, How the Two Illegal Aliens Arrested for Plotting to Bomb the New York Subway Entered and Remained in the United States." That special investigation highlighted the fact that illegal aliens who enter the country through the northern border may be involved in terrorist activities. In this investigation, the OIG examined how two aliens, Gazi Ibrahim Abu Mezer and Lafi Khalil, entered and remained in the United States...
Page 26 - ... Those who exercise this right no longer benefit from the protection of their home countries, and thus, are entitled to special protection from the international community. The UN Convention relating to the status of refugees, on which our 1980 Refugee Act was grounded, outlines US obligations toward those who meet the requirements of refugee status, and the Convention Against Torture and Other Cruel Inhumane or Degrading Treatment or Punishment, to which the United States became a full party...
Page 74 - Mr. Chairman, this concludes my formal statement. I would be pleased to respond to any questions.
Page 63 - ... defects. The recidivism problem is also apparent : 2 million sexually active adolescent women receive no contraceptive services, and about 44 percent of adolescents who have their first child will be pregnant again within 1 year. We will be submitting the administration's proposal for your consideration in the near future. Mr. Chairman, I would like to close by commending this subcommittee as I have in the past for its strong leadership in addressing the needs and problems of our health services...
Page 12 - Mr. Chairman, members of the Subcommittee, thank you for the opportunity to speak to you today. My name is Dr.