Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site brl-tgr.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!bellcore!decvax!genrad!mit-eddie!godot!harvard!seismo!brl-tgr!jcp From: jcp@brl-tgr.ARPA (Joe Pistritto) Newsgroups: net.politics Subject: Re: Sanctuary (Re: It Cant Happen Here) Message-ID: <7515@brl-tgr.ARPA> Date: Fri, 18-Jan-85 15:05:59 EST Article-I.D.: brl-tgr.7515 Posted: Fri Jan 18 15:05:59 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 21-Jan-85 02:22:41 EST References: <658@ihopb.UUCP> <7474@brl-tgr.ARPA> <658@ut-sally.UUCP> Reply-To: jcp@brl-tgr.ARPA (Joe Pistritto ) Organization: Ballistic Research Lab Lines: 22 Sorry, must still disagree with you. While there is provision in US immigration law for refugees to enter the US, this provision may only be used WHEN THE US GOVERNMENT CERTIFIES that the people in question ARE refugees. This is a decision made in the executive branch of the government (Executive Order is sufficient). For instance, when the Mariel Cubans were coming in, the government certified them as refugees, thus eliminating their illegal status (although they still have to go thru normal in-processing via the immigration service). The same thing was done for the Vietnamese who entered when Vietnam fell. I say again: Those people from Central America are ILLEGAL ALIENS until the US gov't says otherwise, which makes anyone sheltering them in violation of Federal Law. Note: the international treaties on refugees are irrelevant, in the past, the US only recognizes as refugees people WE certify as such. There is no implicit right on the part of any non-US citizen to enter the United States unless given permission by federal authorities. This really is a matter of fact, not argument. -JCP-