During the first quarter of this year. 8.165 people applied for asylum through the Newark District Office. Another 8.795 aliens made the same claim at the New York INS office. The political asylum process has spun out of control. Moreover. political asylum has become an increasingly popular route to circumvent safeguards in the law that help us to weed out bogus and fraudulent claims. Contrary to popular opinion. it is not easy to gain legal entry into the United States. That fact can be attested to by the 3.4 million people around the world who are waiting for visas to be issued by our Government in order that they can legally come to the United States. Some of those people. depending on their home country and the immigration quota that applies to it. wait up to 10 years before they are issued a visa. While many of those who arrive on our shores seeking political asylum have an arguable basis for their claim. others use it as an opportunity to leap frog over those 3.4 million people who are waiting in line for the issuance of their visa. Even though the criteria are lax. the law on political asylum is clear when in says that the asylum candidate "must face a reasonable fear of persecution." Today. .there are people boarding planes and boats around the world. hoping to start a new life in the United States with phony claims of political asylum. And the odds are theyll be successful.
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People are making phony claims of political asylum to leap frog over others waiting for visas.