Plan for asylum raises doubts
WASHINGTON i A I’ the? Glintm ulin
(ration plans to streamline the handling of the
150.000 annual requests for politic al asylum, but
i ritu.s wonder whether the measures w i mere
i reate i ness hm klog elsewhere lit the systeti
Federal officials and immigration acivoi ales m
the private Sis tor said the Instil e Deject nee.! :s
the verge of implementing three steps doubling
the numtter of of fit tils adjudicating i lautis. impos
mg a $ liii j i ro< ess mg ha* for those who i in afford
it. and delaying work permits until siv months
after applii ation
In a major policv i hange. the new s\ stem will be
put to work on new i laims immediately AW re
adopting a Inst in, first-ou! polii \ said one gov
eminent offii dal. who dec lined to !«• identified by
name AW are going to pnx ess new applii ations
first and not immediately deal with the b.u klog
1'hat hni klog now numbers 170.0(H)t us.-s uul
the Immigration and Naturalization Sery ti e esti
mates it < mild hit 500.0011 i uses by the end of the
year.
Immigration and Naturalization < ommissioner
Doris Meissner w.is to outline the steps m detail at
a news conference Tuesday
Arthur Helton, director of migration programs
for the Open Simaety Institute, said, 1 here s a real
risk that this w ill simply transfer the bai king from
one office to another within the (ustiie De
partment
The administration plan to ini reuse ■ perhaps
double, the 85 immigration judges simply does not
add enough judges to handle the i aseload, said
Helton, whose jiro immigration foundation was
established bv Hungarian-horn financier ■George
Soros.
1 fe said the 85 judges, who also have other bust
ness, currently decide 20,01)0 asylum i laims a
year Doubling them might add another 40,0(H)
asylum decisions, hut Helton said he expected
they would he given an additional 120.000 i uses
a year "because the new sy stem may involve less
work for an immigration officer to refer t uses to
immigration judges than to grant asy lum
Nmv. even applii ants with no real i liaru e of
w inning asylum i ait get a work permit just 00 day s
after applying and work for years while they wait
for their < Inim to he denied In get asylum, in
‘There’s a real risk that this
will simply transfer the
backlog from one office to
another within the Justice
Department. ’
Arthur He
apple ,111! m -st have 1 well-founded fear ■ t ethnu
religious nr a' perse* idem il returned |o his
or her t ounlrv of origin
l lu' now system envisions thill immigration of
fit its who handle these claims their numbers
(ion fill'd from 1 Ml In 10(1, will he ah la In pro* t>ss
ini'Ml or 101 is 1 la 1 ins within 1 a 1 tin \ s and hand out a
work permit at (hi1 same timi'
Those who art> not given aw him within 00 days
w 111 In’ sum moot'd to ,1 deport at ion hearing, and
it i mild lake another six months lo get a work per
not
In addition llie immigration serv n e w ill begin
fingerprinting asylum apple aids lo eliminate a
problem of duple ale appiit atioris in different 1 s
1 dies under different names
And those filing boilerplate applu alions now
sold by soa ailed I onsuhanls w ill he asked for
additional data so a quo k dei ision ( an U' made
I he new SI to fee is designed to help pas the
St’OO 1 ost of proi essing an appiit ation The fees
will he waived lor those whoa annul afford it
\Y irreii I eiden. e\ei utive direi tor of the Atuer
ii an Immigration I uvvyers Awm latuin. has ques
tinned w liether tins w ill present a new hottlenei k
"Instead of adindenting all those tee waivers, why
don't we spend that time adjudii aiing the asylum
claims'" he has asked
The offii i a I said, however, that the fee waiver
proi ess is still to he developed and we do not
intend to ( reate one problem hv sulv ing another
Proposed regulations embodying the poli’ v are
to Is* printed tins week in the federal Register I lie
puhlii will have M) davs to i omment before filial
regulations are issued this summer
Former judge commits suicide
I.AS Y! (,AS (AP) A former
liiilni* committed suit.nit*, ending
I four-veer flight from justu e .iftcr
tie w as charged w itli stealing $ 1 8
million entrusted to him in his
private law practit e
John ( Fairbanks, 71), of New
Hampshire was found with a
plastic frag over his head in his
hotel room, where he left a note
taped to a mirror. Metro Pol 11 e
Homicide Sgt Dill Keeton said
Monday
I airbanks disappeared on I Jet
JH. IVJHl). .1 das after he was
indit ted An extensive investi
gation yielded few t ines, despite
the help of national television
crime programs such as \mfii
: s \his.' It iinlud.
He chet ked into the M< ,M
Grand Hotel on Thursday tinder
another name and overstat ed the
two nights he paid lor. Keeton
s.ntl On Sunday, hotel employ
ees broke into the room, whit h
was lot ked from the inside with
a deadbolt.
I it* left a note t hat t an he
interpreted as a suicide note
Keeton said, "in the note he said
Iiis ri'.il n,line was |ohn l air
hanks and to i nntai t a son m
I)enver for positive 11)
( oroner Ron I lud said in
autopsy determined Fairbanks
died of aspliyviat ion He ruled
the death a sail ide
The mdit tiin>nt i barged that
for more than live years, Fair
banks transferred into Ins per
soiuil ai < mints money entrusted
to him hy i lients or belonging Io
henefii nines of trusts and heirs
ol estates that were adminis
tered In him
At least iffi former i liellts or
their estates mi hiding three
of his sisters, insurance compa
nies a fi.i11is and the town of
H ashington. N II tiled
claims totaling more than 'i>t>
million Some of his i hunts
were elderly retired people who
entrusted their life savings to
turn
In 1‘1‘M i laimants settled lor
about 15 cents on the dollar I he
money i ame from a state fund
set aside to cover fraud by attor
ney s and from the Fairbanks
family
I airb.mks resigned alter more
than 30 sears .is .i Newport Dis
Iru t (.nurl 11uim■ in June 1HHU Hi'
also Irifd to resign from the state
heir. hut tlm New Hampshire
Supreme < ourt would not .111 opt
Ins resign.it ion so it could retain
disi iplmars lurisdii lion It did
suspend him from pr.u tu mg loss
It would have Iteen better tor
turn to have !,n ed the courts th.m
to end up this vs,iv . said Sole
re , S i.y iotes Fairbanks friend
and business usmh ia!e
S 10 1 oiu.tv Attoruev Stan
Httthavvas said Are we glad it's
ov er '' Sure, hut It's a great tragedy
that it had to end this w as
HathaWiiv has said that the
1 use made the residents ot Ness
port a tow o ot ahull l>. HHI. leers
of lawyers and the |inlu,ial sys
tern
He w is a trusted lie al attoi
lies who took the opportunity
afforded by that trust to make
himself millions of dollars
through theft. state Hep I’eter
Hurling of Cornish once said
"And he stole from the weakest
and most vulnerable people
Doa dealer’s federal license revoked
WASHINGTON IAI’) A 7t-vear-old dog deal
er from Wisconsin is tile first [Mirson to [>ermancnt U
lose liis federal license tor violating tlit* Animal Wo!
j.irt* A« t. tin* Agriculture Department said Mondas
The departments Animal and Plant Health
InsjM'i tion Serve e said Krvill Stnhune agreed to sur
render Ins In ense rather than have a hearing
I his is an example of our increased efforts to
prevent animal dealers from violating the Animal
W elfare Ai.t regulations," said Patrit ni Jensen, ai t
mg assistant secretary of agri< ulture for market
ingaud inspection services.
Steliune’s lawyer said Ins < liont was a small deal
er whom the department decided to make a scape
goat fur animal rights terrorists" who didn't like
Stehane veiling an.. to laboratories
The lawyer, Michael 1 Kudolph. said Stehane
(iniw the department's attention hecnuse he was
depu ted in a tabloid television program shooting
a dog for a Hniong immigrant cample from South
east Asia Kudolph said Stefmne regularly sold them
chic kens
Kudolph said tin1 couple had been hired In an
animal rights group to entrap Stehane The i ou
ple pleaded with Stehane to kill the animal and
filmed the shooting with a hidden camera. Kudolph
said
State cruelty charges were dismissed
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