Especially harsh punishments have been inflicted on persons whose resistance is motivated by religion. According to a recent Amnesty Intemational report. enforcement measures in two overwhelmingly Catholic villages in northern China have included torture. sexual abuse. and the detention of resisters relatives as hostages to compel compliance. The campaign is reported to have been conducted under the slogan "better to have more graves than more than one child." The dramatic and wellpublicized arrival in 199394 of a few vessels containing Chinese boat people has tended to obscure the fact that these people dave never amounted to more than a tiny fraction of the undocumented immigrants to the United States. The total number of Chinese boat people who arrived during the years our more generous asylum policy was in force. or who were apprehended while attempting to do so. was fewer than 2.000. This is the equivalent of a quiet evening on the border in San Diego. Nor is there evidence that denying asylum to people whose claims are based on forced abortion or forced sterilization will be of any use in preventing false claims.
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