OMB has told us that under H.R. 450. they would not be able to issue those INS regulations. Now. we have been working with INS for years. It does not make sense to have 450.000 political asylum cases in limbo. waiting to be processed. It increases by 100.000 a year. There is nothing to do with the political situation in other countries. It is because people have figured out how to use this loophole. You have got people in other countries that consider themselves immigration consultants. and they tell people that "you get on the plane. you flush your papers down the toilet en route. You get over there and you say you are claiming political asylum. It will take 2 years before they process and by then they will never find you." That is what happened with Mir Amal Kansi who killed two people outside the CIA.
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Generalizing that people claiming political asylum are abusing a loophole to stay in the country.