Admission of Refugees Into the United States: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Immigration, Citizenship, and International Law of the Committee on the Judiciary, House of Representatives, Ninety-fifth Congress, First [and Second] Session[s], on H.R. 3056 .... |
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Page 76 - January 1951 and owing to a wellfounded fear of being persecuted for reasons of race, religion, nationality, membership of a particular social group or political opinion, is outside the country of his nationality and is unable or, owing to such fear, is unwilling to avail himself of the protection of that country...
Page 39 - No Contracting State shall expel or return («refouler» ) a refugee in any manner whatsoever to the frontiers of territories where his life -or freedom would be threatened on account of his race, religion, nationality, membership of a particular social group or political opinion.
Page 14 - ... any person who is outside any country of such person's nationality or, in the case of a person having no nationality, is outside any country in which such person last habitually resided, and who is unable or unwilling to return to, and is unable or unwilling to avail himself or herself of the protection of, that country because of persecution or a well-founded fear of persecution on account of race, religion, nationality, membership in a particular social group, or political opinion...
Page 17 - But emergency assistance — in the absence of rights such as those provided in the Protocol — can degenerate into permanent relief, fostering the refugees' human deterioration and permitting abandonment of responsibility by concerned governments. On the other hand, the provision of such rights can lead to just and lasting solutions to refugee problems. Such solutions in turn can help promote the reduction of tensions, the solution of broader issues and the stability of concerned nations. United...
Page 59 - The subcommittee will come to order. This is the second in a series of hearings which this subcommittee intends to conduct on HR 13008.
Page 81 - ... if they were to return to Haiti. Those who established such a claim are protected against forced return under the United Nations Protocol Relating to the Status of Refugees, to which the United States acceded in 1968, and under applicable US law.
Page 64 - Under this original language, a refugee was, * * * any person who is outside any country of his nationality or, in the case of a person having no nationality, is outside any country in which he last habitually resided, and who is unable or unwilling to return to, and is unable or unwilling to avail himself of the protection of, that country because of persecution or a well-founded fear of persecution on account of race, religion, nationality, membership of a particular social group or political opinion.
Page 86 - This power to take no action with respect to reorganization plans should be carefully distinguished from the situation created by statutes which provide for subsequent resolutions disapproving presidential actions in the administration of continuing programs. The pressures of an ongoing program with prior commitments force the President to act. And he must take action acceptable to Congress if that, action is to stand. This urgency for action which pervades the administration of continuing substantive...
Page 56 - However, persons who themselves had engaged in persecution as well as those fleeing military or civil disturbances were excluded from the definition.
Page 67 - ... aliens from the United States, any alien who seeks to depart from the Canal Zone, the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands, or an outlying possession of the United States shall comply with such other restrictions and prohibitions as may be imposed by regulations prescribed, with the concurrence of the Administrator of the Bureau of Security and Consular Affairs and the Commissioner, by the Governor of the Canal Zone, the High Commissioner of the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands, or by...