In fact. a leader of a Pentecostal group in Russia told the INS that many who claim to be so are not Pentecostals at all. According to this church leader. most of the applicants simply have family members who are Pentecostal. and these applicants use their familiarity with the religion to pass themselves off as category members. According to interim cables which I will have printed In the RECORD from the Immigration and Naturalization Service. less thanI hope you hear this in this debate--less than onehalf of 1 percent of those who apply under the Lautenberg standards would meet the worldwide definition of refugee. Nevertheless. 91 percent of these applicants were approved under the reduced guidelines. In the most recent human rights reports from the* State Department to the Committee on Foreign Relations. the U.S.
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Applicants use their familiarity with the religion to pass themselves off as category members.